Dear Friends,

It has been my joy for about a dozen years to lead a Bible study for and work with men who struggle with addiction. Alcoholics Anonymous and its derivatives with their twelve steps have done the best work in helping people who struggle with these life-dominating sins. Their twelve steps begin with the admission of powerlessness, point to a power greater than themselves (God by step 3) to whom they must look for help, and provide people God can use to assist in the battle. The one thing they make abundantly clear is that to try to go it alone is absolute folly. Today’s devotional makes the same point. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,

John Janney

John 15:5

“I cannot do it alone;
The waves run fast and high,
And the fogs close chill around,
And the light goes out in the sky;
But I know that we two
Shall win in the end —
Jesus and I.

I cannot row it myself,
My boat on the raging sea;
But beside me sits Another,
Who pulls or steers with me;
And I know that we two
Shall come into port —
His child and He.

Coward and wayward and weak,
I change with the changing sky,
Today so eager and brave,
Tomorrow not caring to try;
But He never gives in,
So we two shall win —
Jesus and I.

Strong and tender and true,
Crucified once for me!
Never will He change, I know,
Whatever I may be!
But all He says I must do,
Ever from sin to keep free.
We shall finish our course
And reach home at last ―
His child and He.”

–The late Dan Crawford, Missionary to Africa