Page Fourteen Of My Rowrite Journal

page 14...I looked up Luke 13:10-17 in my Recovery Bible

and I loved what it said. 

13:10-13-Jesus cared for social outcasts, emotional and physical cripples, and those in spiritual bondage.This handicapped woman was hurting in all three respects. In eighteen years she had probably tried everything to be healed, but now was resigned to her painful limitations. Then power of an evil spirit had crippled her. But the power of Jesus Christ Knows no limitations.

Jesus healed this woman who had given up all hope for a new life. He can do the same for us by bringing us healing and deliverance.

In my prayer book I also read the scripture on page 117..."Six Woes" Luke 11:37-54

Then I looked that up in my Recovery Bible and loved the

insight they had for these verses. We often protect ourselves by focusing our attention on other people and their behaviors.That way we dont have to examine our own.

We often stay in relationships in which we seem powerless, for in doing so, we maintain built-in excuses for failure. We also spend time looking down on others who are "worse" than we are thus avoiding an examination of our own corruption. But in doing these things, we fail to take responsibility for our own lives through honest self-examination.

Jesus confronted the pharisees, saying, "you Pharisees are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but

inside you are filthy- full of greed and wickedness "Luke 11:3-9)

Can you imagine washing only the outside of a cup that is moldy on the inside and then drinking from it? Of course not! But we do this in a spiritual sense because it is hard to deal

with the "dirrt" inside our hearts.

Changing those things in our lives that we can change involves taking steps to clean the inside of our "cup" our heart. We  must begin by turning our eyes away from everyone around us, including those we blame for our condition in life or