Our Primary Purpose Carry The Message

We are reminded over and over again in the AA Traditions, Twelve Steps, and the experience of so many of us, that it is the simplicity and focus of sticking with one primary purpose that helps us help one another.  Each group has but one primary purpose – to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.  (Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions page 150)  This is the focus we need as we gather to support one another in sobriety and in the new life God is giving us. 

What you should want most is God’s kingdom and doing what he wants you to do. Then he will give you all these other things you need.  (Matthew 6:33 ERV)

The foundational principles for our new life are:- admitting our powerlessness without God; coming to believe in a Power greater than ourselves; and turning our will and our life over to the care of God. 

God’s Word also encourages us to have a single-minded focus on what matters.  When Jesus was asked what the most important focus of life was, this is what He said:  Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and most important command. And the second command is like the first: ‘Love your neighbor the same as you love yourself’. (Matthew 22:37-39 ERV)

God did not keep back his own Son, but he gave him for us. If God did this, won’t he freely give us everything else? Give freely, and you will profit. Help others, and you will gain more for yourself.  (Romans 8:32 CEV, Proverbs 11:25 ERV)

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, Thank you for Jesus who brought the message of Your love for me to earth, even to the cross where He died for my sins.  Help me to be focused on what matters today and to carry the message of Your redeeming grace with love and clarity to those I meet.  Amen

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