Twelve Steps Of A.a. Step Ten Ongoing Personal Inventory (1)
Thursday November 26, 2015
Step Ten: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
We live in a world that says, “If it feels good do it.” For many of us in our addiction, we ran after numerous destructive things in order to try to feel good. However, none of these helped. Now, in life in recovery, God invites you and me to measure our quality of life based on principles that He knows have the power to give true meaning and satisfaction. Many times the practices God prescribes do not feed our “feel good fast” addictive emotions. We struggle to do what is right, while favoring what is convenient. One of the purposes of an ongoing daily Step 10 inventory is to help us recognize our ongoing temptation to a “softer, easier way of life”.
For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes, and he is the one to whom we are accountable. (Hebrews 4:12-13 NLT)
Step 10 is about bringing our lives to the mirror of God’s Word and seeing how we are actually practicing our new way of living. Too many of us piece together this new way of life from the practices of others and things that seem to “work for us”. The word of God is clear that this is not sufficient and the only way to building a new life is to study and follow God’s blueprint for living.
But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it. (James 1:22, 25 NLT)
Today, let’s invite God to shine his light on our lives and help us sort through our motives and actions. When our actions or attitudes are different from God’s directives, let’s re-align our ways with what God is saying, and do it promptly, without wavering.
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