Turn (Celebrate Recovery)
 

Everyday we surrender our lives to people we don't even know. We rely on the fast-food server to wash his hands before handing us our hamburger. We're confident that our dentist has the necessary education and skill to correctly fill our cavity. When we stop at the gas station to ask for directions, we believe that the attendant is more familiar with the area than we are. As we board the airplane to cross the US, we depend on the skill of the pilot to reach our destination safely.

Some of us have driven behind a slow moving semi laboring up a mountain grade on a winding, two lane road. The trucker would periodically motion for a string of cars to go around him. By merely waving us on, a complete stranger was taking responsibility for our physical safety and that of our families. We passed the truck safely and, glancing into our rear view mirror, observed a line of cars whose drivers had also put their blind trust and faith in a stranger as they, too, passed the 18 wheeler.

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It's so hard for us to surrender our own will and control, to trust our lives unreservedly to Gods care. Yet the reality is that this one time decision determines our destiny. We put our faith into action by simply taking God at his word. In Romans 10:9 the apostle Paul assures us that"if you confess with your mouth 'Jesus is 'Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."

To be continued