Twelve Steps Of A.a. Going Forward
Friday December 4, 2015
….when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. (John 16:13 NKJV)
As we consider our future we need to take time to reflect on where we have been and where we want to go from here. Like any journey we plan to take, we need to know our starting place, our destination, and the way to get there. If we do not plan our course we will wander along paths that may lead us in a way we don’t want to go and consequently, we’ll end up lost or in a dangerous place.
When God’s people were slaves in Egypt, they cried out to God and asked Him to deliver them from their hard taskmasters. Through amazing interventions God enabled them to be released from slavery and they set out on a journey to a safe land God promised to their forefathers.
Naturally they encountered some problems along the way. How did they respond? They began to reflect on what they remembered as ‘good’ back in Egypt. They forgot the hard taskmasters and the fact that they had been suffering as slaves. They began to long for those things they did not have on their journey and complained that they would be better off back in Egypt. How quickly they forgot the miraculous things that God did for them.
This is what the Lord says your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go. (Isaiah 48:17 NIV) God also heard us when we cried out in the bondage of our addiction and, by His sovereign intervention, led us to the place where we started our journey to freedom. We too can forget where we have come from and what it was really like when we were in the pit of our addiction. Sometimes we may also reflect on what was ‘good’ about our life in addiction. We may forget that we were in bondage to our drug of choice, a destructive habit, and/or a dysfunctional relationship.
Today is a good time to thank God for how far He’s brought us, commit ourselves again to following His plans for our future, and welcome God to accompany us in our new life in recovery today.
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