Twelve Steps Of A.a. Step 4 Searching And Fearless Moral Inventory (1)

Monday October 23, 2017

What is the challenge for us as we reflect on making a searching, fearless, and moral inventory based on God’s way of living as revealed in the Bible?

Let’s take a good look at the way we’re living and reorder our lives under God. If we claim that we’re free of sin, we’re only fooling ourselves. A claim like that is errant nonsense. On the other hand, if we admit our sins—make a clean breast of them—he won’t let us down; he’ll be true to himself. He’ll forgive our sins and purge us of all wrongdoing. (Lamentations 3:40; 1 John 1:8-9 MSG)

Our life in addiction was controlled by an attachment to a destructive substance, a habit, a person, or a combination of these. At some point in our lives we began to use whatever or whoever would give us pleasure and keep our pain at a distance. We became focused on ourselves and our needs to the exclusion of every other relationship. We did not know how to love others in a healthy way and we believed, because of our feelings of self-rejection, that we were unlovable.

‘…no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love. Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, doesn’t have a swelled head, doesn’t force itself on others, isn’t always “me first,” doesn’t fly off the handle, doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, doesn’t revel when others grovel, takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, puts up with anything, trusts God always, always looks for the best, never looks back, but keeps going to the end. (1 Corinthians 13:4-5 MSG)

Taking inventory is an opportunity to look at our relationships from God’s perspective and make a list of the ways we’ve strayed from God’s tried and trusted principles.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, I admit that I don’t know how to live well in relationship, either with You or with others. I want to learn to be a person who receives love and gives love. I invite you to teach me to be the person you created me to be. Amen

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Twelve Steps Of A.a. Step 4 Searching And Fearless Moral Inventory (1)

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