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thank you for tuning in to victorious

and recovery this week i've had a lot of

experiences

just new ones

in

my new job and

with new people and it's been good

anytime that i find myself having to

adjust to a new

circumstance a new

type of life basically

new rules and

new people

it propels me into

a new stage of learning

it presents new problems it presents new

stresses

and

with those come

new teaching

new learning

one thing that has been great about

living on my own again

is that

there's not that impending feeling that

somebody's gonna walk in

so i found myself

praying and seeking god deeper

than before and i'm not sure why exactly

that makes a difference but i've noticed

that that's the case

there's something

really simple there's something freeing

about knowing that

when i'm talking to god when i'm

studying when i'm praying

when i'm meditating that i don't have to

worry about

oh is somebody trying to talk to me oh

is

this gonna get interrupted somehow

so i've had i've had depth lately that i

haven't had in a while and it's been

nice

in the last couple of episodes i've been

talking about a few books that i'm

reading mostly the drop the rock book

but in reading that

i see a lot of

concepts that i know came from

the bible

so i started

diving in a little bit to

the biblical

terms of that i wanted to share some of

that with you guys

because my my ultimate goal is to

not just recover

from drugs

from alcohol from

all the other addictions

it's to

find a way to live life that is

fulfilling

find a way to live life where i'm

not constantly having to make amends not

constantly

fearing for the worst

trying to put all these words and

knowledge into practice

thankfully i know now that putting these

things into practice it's never going to

get me too perfect

but it just might get me to proficiency

i might just be proficient

maybe even good at doing the things that

i've learned

so it's progress

and diligence rather than

perfection

and

the scripture that describes where i

want to be or

what i'm talking about

the best for me is in matthew 7.

starting in verse 24 it says therefore

everyone who hears these words of mine

and puts them into practice

it's like a wise man who built his house

on the rock

the rain came down the streams rose

the winds blew and beat against the

house

yet it did not fall

because it had its foundation on the

rock

but everyone who hears these words of

mine and does not put them into practice

is like a foolish man

who built his house on the sand

the rain came down the streams rose

and the winds blew and beat against that

house and it fell with a great crash

and i like that it

talks about both sides of the story

there

it talks about

what happens when we gather all this

information

all this

knowledge and and wisdom that we've

learned and we put it into practice as

best as we can

that is the foundation that's that solid

rock foundation

that allows us to withstand the hard

times

but there's that big

cautionary note at the end

what if i hear these words what if i

take in this knowledge

and choose

not to use it

that's a purposeful act of disobedience

and

that's way worse than being ignorant

right you can be ignorant for a while

and

it's gonna be okay god's grace will most

likely cover you because you just simply

don't know any better

and we've all been there too

and in a way it's kind of nice being

ignorant sometimes you're like oh well

you know i just didn't know

but now that we've put all this work

into our step work and we're

hanging out with the right people that

are teaching us the right things and now

we know better

and i strongly believe that when we go

back out

into the world after being in

these programs

and we know better and that's why

it gets

way worse way quicker

because we're no longer in ignorance

now at that point i'm actively

choosing to go against what i know is

right

and if i know

without a doubt what god's will is for a

situation

i must do that i need to do that next

right thing t