What does
Frankenstein have to do with recovery? Well, how about this little gem?
"By very slow degrees, and with
frequent relapses…I recovered."
Mary Shelley (from Frankenstein)
Can you relate?
Where do you see yourself in this quote? Is the pace of progress by slow
degrees? Are you relapsing? Are you recovering?
Recovery, more
often than not, is a process, not a cure. And where you are today will not be
where you are tomorrow. Change is happening.
“For precept must be
upon precept, precept
upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and
there a little.”
Isaiah 28:10
“But do not forget this one thing,
dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand
years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some
understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but
everyone to come to repentance.”
2 Peter 3:8
And with God, we
never need to fear that change.
“But we all, with open face beholding
as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory
to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
2 Corinthians 3:18
“And not only so, but we glory in
tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience,
experience; and experience, hope:”
Romans 5:3-4
“But if we hope for that we see not,
then do we with patience wait for it.”
Romans 8:25
“For whatsoever things were written
aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort
of the scriptures might have hope.”
Romans 15:4
You are not a
monster; you’re not hopeless. In this autumn season, when Frankenstein’s
monster is all the more visible, remember, in the broad spectrum of things,
there’s a great creator at work. With Frankenstein, it was Shelley. With each
of us, it is God.
He is NOT done
with you yet. It may be by slow degrees, but nevertheless, change for the
better is happening! God is too good of a God to allow you to stay stuck.
Copyright © 2016 by Sheryle Cruse
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