Step One My Life Is Unmanageable

Why do we continue to do things our own way when it obviously isn’t working?  Someone has defined insanity as repeatedly doing the same action while expecting a different result.  Someone else has coined a slogan that says, “If nothing changes, nothing changes.”  Doing life on our own without God has led us into empty, lonely, and shame-filled places. 

In order for us to understand just how unmanageable our life is without God and how powerless we are to fix ourselves, the Bible uses a clear picture that contrasts a fountain of fresh flowing water with an old container – a cistern – that is dirty and cracked and doesn’t even hold the rain water that has flowed into it.  

We’ve responded to our felt needs with defective short-term solutions and ended up with a more frustrating level of need.  While we are filling our lives with chaos and thrashing around in our own panic and distractions, we’ll never know real life.  God desires to provide power and guidance through His Holy Spirit, so we can have a peaceful and meaningful life that is fruitful and satisfying.  

Whether we are early in recovery or we’ve been clean and sober for a time, we need what God is offering us each day.  We need to be filled up with God’s life-giving truth and the refreshing power of the Holy Spirit. 

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, I don’t want my life to remain stale or chaotic and ask that You work in me each day so I may live in the reality of what life brings.  Please give me the courage and strength to follow Your direction in all my affairs.  Amen

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