Twelve Steps Step Ten Ongoing Personal Inventory (1)
Thursday December 8, 2016
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 to try to feel good. Now, in recovery, God invites you and me to measure our quality of life based on principles that He knows give true meaning and satisfaction to our daily living. Many practices that 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 a continual Step 10 inventory is to help us recognize our ongoing temptation to what we believe is 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 Ten is about bringing our lives to the mirror of God’s Word to assess how we are practicing His principles in all our ways. 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 way is not sufficient. The only way to build a new life is to study and follow God’s Word in the Bible, which is the 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)
Heavenly Father, I ask that You shine your light into my life and help me sort through my motives and practices. When my actions or attitude are not in keeping with Your ways, help me to promptly re-align them.
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