Unity

Monday January 27, 2025

After living so long in the self-centered world of addiction, it’s not easy to come into recovery and build relationships with other human beings, particularly those who like us have lived in self-centered ways. Relapse is more often the result of stress in relationships than it is in giving into our obsession to use.

Put up with one another. Forgive one another if you are holding something against someone. Forgive, just as the Lord forgave you. And over all these good things put on love. Love holds them all together perfectly as if they were one. (Colossians 3:13-14 NIRV)

We need help to live in unity with others. In the Twelve Traditions of A.A. it’s why the founders made the following principle the very first one: “Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.” This principle echoes what God has been teaching humans since the beginning of time. To live well individually, we need to live well with each other.

There is one body, but it has many parts. But all its many parts make up one body. It is the same with Christ. So let us do all we can to live in peace. And let us work hard to build up one another. (I Corinthians 12:12, Romans 14:19b NIRV)

No one has said that living in a community with others is easy. The Bible verse above tells us we need to work hard to build each other up. We need endurance and encouragement from God if we are going to be able to love one another and socialize in a way that helps us live together in a way that pleases Him.

May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. (Romans 15:5-7 NIV)

Prayer: Heavenly Father, It is hard to be together with others when we all have character defects. Please give me the grace to accept others, as I pray You will give them the grace to accept me. Help us all to walk in love and unity and commit to doing it one step at a time, one day at a time. Amen

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