Twelve Steps Of Aa Step 4: Searching And Fearless Moral Inventory (2)
Wednesday November 23, 2016
The basic questions to ask when making a searching and fearless moral inventory are, "God what does my life look like to you? How have I strayed from that? What needs to go? What needs to be sought after with everything I have in me so I can really live?"
In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone. (2 Peter 1:5-7 NLT)
Our addictive behaviour is almost certainly rooted in the problems we experienced in relationships in our past. Someone deeply wounded us and we were broken in body and spirit. Our subsequent beliefs and actions flowed from the pain and brokenness we experienced in association with that event. Consequently, when doing a step four inventory that is searching, fearless, and moral, we must go back to our way of thinking and ask ourselves – “What actually happened to cause me to think and behave the way I do”? The truthful answer to this question is the foundation of doing a searching, fearless, and moral inventory. We must look at not only what we did, but WHY we did it. No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. (Philippians 3:13-14 NLT)
Like a skillful surgeon God will help us identify and then remove those things that have hindered us in living a good and pleasing life. We will come to know what a purposeful life looks like when we inventory our past and current behaviour in the light of God’s word.
Loving God, The act of uncovering what I have tried to cover up and run from in the past is very challenging. However, now trusting in the safety of Your love and care, I am determined to make a searching, fearless, and moral inventory of myself.
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