Admitting What’s Wrong (1)
Monday October 24, 2016
Sorting out what went wrong in our lives and getting it written down in Step Four has already been a challenging and painful process. Why did the founders of AA follow up that work with the exercise of taking all that information and admitting it to God, to ourselves, and to someone else?
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (Psalm 51:4, 1 John 1:9 NLT)
Living as though we don’t need God makes us sick and ultimately destroys us. Jesus wants to heal us from the inside out so we need never be sick again. We, however, have our own ideas about why we are in the condition that we are in. We would do well to ask Jesus to speak to us about the real nature of our problem. Often, He will go deeper into our soul and reveal what we need to bring into the light.
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. (2 Corinthians 5:17, 19 NLT)
Coming before God in humility and honesty about what’s actually gone wrong in our lives will establish us in a rightful position of honouring God’s word and ways over our own ideas.
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