It's My Life, Why Can't I Run It?

Principle 3: Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control.
“Happy are the meek.” (Matthew 5:5)

Step 3: We made a decision to turn our lives and our wills over to the care of God.
“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.”(Romans 12:1)

One of my favorite movies of all time is Tombstone, with Kurt Russel as Wyatt Earp and Val Kilmer as his friend Doc Holiday. Wyatt goes to visit his dying friend in the hospital at the end of the movie and tells his friend that he's just going on to lead a "normal life" Doc replies... "There is no such thing as a normal life, just life! go live it Wyatt"

In my many years as a recovering person I have seen many people trying to be "normal". I agree with those words of Doc Holiday, that there really is no such thing.

Normal compared to who?

Those of us who have suffered through "being addicted" to something aren't abnormal, we are who we are. We have done things in our past and made choices that might seem to many in this world as improper or questionable.

One of the main challenges to recovery is our shame and guilt of our pasts and that in order to recover we must put our past to rest. We must focus on today. We should ask ourself; What can I do today to move forward? As opposed to, why me?

We are who we are, and God designed us, and planned a particular life for us.


Heb 12:1 A huge cloud of witnesses is all around us. So let us throw off everything that stands in our way. Let us throw off any sin that holds on to us so tightly. Let us keep on running the race marked out for us.


When I was deep in my addiction, I ran my life in the ground, I spent years and years creating a pile of broken promises, lies, deceit, broken relationships and burnt bridges. I had turned to drugs and gambling to escape from being "normal"

The key words in that last paragraph are "I ran my life"

I am so relieved that I have learned step 3. I now have a totally new identity in Christ! That I have turned my will and my life over to him, I have no more worries about anything other than trusting in Him.

And If you can't trust God to run your life. Who can you trust?