Meditations on "Recovery"

Many of us when we start walking with God are unfamiliar with the full counsel of God’s word as recorded in the Bible and very few ever reach that place of complete knowledge.

The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous makes this statement: “Putting out of our minds the wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes.

Everyone wants a happy life. In the past some of us tried to achieve a good life by taking what seemed to be shortcuts.

In recent times we have all felt insecure due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

In Step-6 we say we are entirely ready to have God remove all the character defects we have listed in our fearless moral inventory.

Often when we begin our new life with God in recovery, we get discouraged because we feel we are unable to control the urges of our old nature.

Often when traumatic situations arise and we are trying to navigate our way through them, we wonder if God is listening to our prayers.

We all know that children need to be corrected by the wise guidance they receive from caring parents.

Audio for As we continue our life with God in recovery it is wise to acknowledge our accountability first to God, and then to another person.

All of us like to be appreciated when we feel we have acted wisely or done a good job.

Step 5 is often a tough step to complete. With great apprehension we have made a fearless moral inventory of ourselves and now we must admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Having lived for so long doing what was right in our own eyes, we may have doubts about being able to live according to God’s principles that we are learning in the Bible.