Love Restores

in Daily Recovery Devotional by Unforced Rhythms

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. – 1 John 4:16

Only God can restore us to sanity.  No legion of counselors, therapist or psychiatrists, can do what God can.  It’s only by God’s grace that we are restored.

But first we must come to believe.  We come to believe in the love of God.  His love is what sets us free from our chains of insanity.  God is love and the more we live in God, the more we live in sanity.

It may seem safer and more comfortable to stay in old patterns of behavior and thinking.  It is not.  The old ways drain us of energy, rob us of opportunities to serve God, and leave us feeling hopeless and alone.  God’s love removes all the old destructive ways we once lived.

Only God can change us.  We cannot change ourselves.  Only God can restore us.  We come to believe that His love restores.  With pure love comes a powerful new way of life.  One filled with hope and promise.

Restore us, O God; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3

Father God, I have come to believe and to know that your love changes me.  Fill me with your Holy Spirit so that I may be changed and have all that is necessary to do your will.

 

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