Meditations on "Rationalizing"

Rationalizing endorses the internal belief that we are victims of circumstances beyond our control.

One reason for rationalizing poor behaviour is that we want the pleasure or the power it offers.

Addicts are experts at creating excuses to rationalize their behavior and to minimize the complexity of their problems.

Denial keeps us in slavery because we are lying to ourselves.

Step Five: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Once we’ve admitted to God what’s wrong, why must we share these details with someone else?

Audio for TWELVE STEPS OF A.A. - STEP FIVE - EXACT NATURE OF MY WRONGS(1) Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked.

There may be times when we feel we will never conquer this desire within us to rebel against the God who made us and who desires that we should walk in His ways.

Two of the many reasons we excuse giving into temptation and rationalizing our behaviour are: 1) We want what sin has to offer us.

Rationalizing is a thought process where we provide a reasonable but untrue argument for harmful actions we plan to take, or have taken.