Twelve Steps Of A.a. Step Three Turn Our Will And Our Lives Over To The Care Of God (1)
Step 3: We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
This step requires action toward another person and that person is God. In the A.A. “12 x 12” book it says, “It is only by ACTION that we can cut away the self-will which has always blocked the entry of God into our lives.” Why would we take on this challenging action to give God entry into our lives? The truth is, we will never experience life to the full until we shape our lives by God’s principles.
For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them. (John 13:15 NIV)
Only by inviting God to live in us and to direct our thinking will we ever find what we’ve been looking for in life.
Dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice – the kind He will accept. …. Don’t copy the behaviour and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect His will really is. (Romans 12:1-2 NLT)
We are created by God and He is the only one who gives fullness of life. To live to the full, we need to surrender our will and our life into God’s care. This will mean NOT always having our own way. Our happiness is NOT the result of getting what we want when we want it. In fact, true happiness will only be achieved when we repeatedly say, “NO” to ourselves and “YES” to God.
When we surrender to God’s principles for life, our lives will change and we will know peace in the deepest recesses of our being. Something will come alive in us, something that has never been alive before, and it will be truly satisfying.
Prayer: Dear God, I surrender my will and my life into Your care and ask You to show me the way forward to a meaningful and satisfying life. Amen
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