• Wisdom – I always had plenty of brains, but my timing and delivery was awful. Essentially, I lacked wisdom and found myself playing ping-pong between legalism and living in license. Only place where that pure wisdom can come from is God. I received my first taste when doing the 30 days of wisdom series on this blog a couple years ago.
• Removing fear to follow God’s will – I’m still a chicken about sharing my faith offline but it God has removed much of the fear which kept me from obeying his will in my life.
• Starting to actually care about other people – I remember doing charitable acts as parts of groups (church stuff, scouts, etc.) but I never remember doing it outside of formalized groups. Even now when it’s not work time or school time, I want to make it either “me” time, or “us” time (meaning my family)… however, God is starting to break that down where I’m seeing needs and how God may want to bless another. Of course whether I do it or not is a different story, but it’s much different than before.
• Letting Go of the Past – It was very hard to forgive people who I felt did me wrong. I wanted revenge or at least to justify myself. You’ve probably seen some of this process over the last few years as I started blogging through recovery and the 12 steps. During this time, God has given me the ability to truly forgive… or at least my current understanding of forgiveness. It feels great, and worth every bit of pain it took to get here.

So how about you? What has changed in your life now that you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Higher Power?

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