stop drinking

There is no sense waiting for New Year’s Day to begin our resolutions! Any thing worth doing is worth doing now. A better goal is to already be an expert on these things we’ve resolved to do by the time the New Year rolls around. Proverbs 13:4 says: “The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the…diligent are fully satisfied.” And James 4:13-14 adds: ”...you say ‘today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city’. Why, you do not even know what tomorrow will bring”.

I realized a couple of days ago that Nov 1st marked 4 months of sobriety. I can’t even begin to describe the wonderful work that God has done in completely delivering me from my alcoholism. Unlike my many failed solo attempts to quit, I no longer have good days or bad days; I simply have blessed days. Every day is a blessed day because every day that passes is a day that alcohol is not even a thought in my mind. I no longer try to resist alcohol; rather, alcohol simply doesn’t exist to me.

Let me be clear on this: My sobriety is not my achievement. My sobriety is given to me by the grace of God simply because I have chosen to completely submit my life to Him and live my life for His works and according to His will. The best news of all is that the deliverance of alcoholism as well as all other habitual sins is available to everyone through the grace of God. Psalm 107:10-16 says:

“Some sat in darkness and the deepest gloom, prisoners suffering in iron chains, for they had rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High. So He subjected them to bitter labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress. He brought them out of darkness and the deepest gloom and broke away their chains. Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men, for he breaks down gates of bronze and cuts through bars of iron.”

Wow! I get chills every time I read that. The words and the truth are so powerful, profound, and alive!

For more information on my story, please click the link below. And please feel free to contact me at any time. I would love to help in any way I can.

http://www.43things.com/how_i_did_it/view/62494/how-to-quit-drinking