Day 6
Scripture: Ezekiel 34:11-16
“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to them,”
declares the Lord.
“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
Story from the Blue Seats:
I had been living a lie since as long as I could remember. Hiding my addiction in deception, lies, and omission. Pretending to be someone I wasn’t. Trying to overcompensate for my shortcomings. Always in fear of being caught.
When that day came, and I knew my house of cards was crumbling down around me, I dropped to my knees and prayed for the first time in decades. “God get me out of this and I’ll never do it again,” I cried out.
God didn’t answer the way I was hoping he would in that moment. I lost everything; marriage, family, home, job, money, freedom. But through that loss, I found recovery. Through recovery I found God. I found my footing on solid ground and through God’s strength and forgiveness I began to rebuild. One day at a time.
That first prayer became my covenant and I realized that God answered it the only way that would have worked for me. I now know a new freedom and happiness. I can’t change the harm I caused in the past, but God has allowed me to use my story to help others. I have found peace. And to the best of my understanding, I know the Lord.
