Meditations on "Surrender"

To allow God to remove all our defects of character is asking Him to take away everything that hinders our ability to live life to the full.

Step Six: We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

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

In recovery, and in life in general, situations often arise which cause us to believe that we are alone and have no one to turn to for help.

Step 3: We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

We’ve been reflecting on remembering this week. Today’s Psalm helps us to be encouraged and to remember that even though our sins are great, if we have repented and turned away from them, we can be confident that God remembers them no more.

Having admitted the exact nature of our wrongs and accepted complete forgiveness from God brings us to the place where we are free indeed.

“Continued to take a personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it” – these are wise words from the founders of AA that are meant to lead us daily to a place of peace.

As we turn our will and our lives over to the care of God we need to ask Him to teach us His ways.

Step 5 – admitting to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Then the Lord gave me this message: “O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay?

When we surrender our will and our lives into God’s care, He establishes a living connection between us and Him.