Step 4 – Start planning your life all over again

May 20, 2009

• The moment you surrender your life over to God—that is the time to start planning all over again. Think back to the time before you started on drugs. What was your ambition? Find what you want to do and then start making plans.
• All your plans must start with God. Make Him your partner and don’t ever let Him leave your life! Don’t make Him leave you by your neglect. Give God the first chance to use your life. Maybe He will want you to help other addicts when you are fully cured.
• You can never again be around your old neighborhood or your old friends. Stay away from you old life as if it were hell itself! Don’t go to your old hangouts just to test yourself to see if you are cured—that would be tempting God. Find new friends and brothers…
• If you had no plans for your life and if you are sure you can’t help others, then mark down on a piece of paper five things you think you would like to do or be. Spend a few weeks investigating what is involved in all of these five things, then choose the one that appeals to you most. You must choose a goal—you can never again be a loafer or a floater who has no ambition. KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO DO—THEN GO AFTER IT! Indecision will ruin you.
• You must learn to love the things you once hated and learn to hate the things you once loved. You can do the right things now because God gives you power to do them.

Continue Reading > Step 5 > Shake off all your fears!

One Way, by David Wilkerson, Regal Books, 1972

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