Willing

I have a very close friend that is an incredible guy. He has been clean and sober for over 6 years. Alcohol and cocaine were his drugs of choice. Recovering from these addictions is not an easy task. He spent some time in treatment centers. He has worked extremely hard to trudge through the 12 steps of AA and other programs. He is always doing service work; He gives others rides to meetings, he works with people that want to get clean and sober, he's a Christ follower who serves with the prison outreach ministry at his church. He has a passion for helping people that don't know how to help themselves, and by doing so it helps him to stay sober and grow in his faith.

If you ask him, what was the key for him to get cleaned up, he would tell you that he had to be willing to do what ever it takes.

We had a conversation a few weeks ago about his smoking cigarettes. I asked him when he was going to quit and he said that he wasn't willing to give it up yet.

What would happen today if we were willing to do whatever it takes to make a change in our lives? What would happen today if we were willing help people who don't know how to help themselves? What would happen today if we were willing to give up our bad habits or additions? What would happen today if we were willing to believe that God is bigger than our problems?

What would happen today...?