Meditations on "Humility"

Becoming strong and steady in our recovery requires that we keep on listening to and learning from God's Word and from the experience, strength, and hope of others.

We often give up on God before His plan for us, in His perfect timing, takes effect. Jesus’ death on Good Friday came before His resurrection on Easter Sunday. Things looked hopeless for Jesus’ followers during the time between those two events, but God was still in charge.

God invites us to a gentle and humble way of life that gives us peace and fills us with joy.

As we follow God’s principles in all our affairs, we will experience great peace, and nothing will cause us to stumble.

When we come to God in recovery, we must humbly acknowledge that we do not know how to live well in relationship with others.

Our trust must be in God even when we don’t understand everything we are going through.

“We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.” Book of AA

God knows that unless we deal with the underlying root of our habits and addictive practices, we will remain doomed for failure.

As we prayerfully review our lives with God, He will reveal where we have caused harm, and when we need to make amends with someone. He will also teach us new ways to live in relationship with Him and others.

Recovery is a time of learning to find serenity in our healing, and blessing God while also accepting life as it is, not as we would have it.

Only God, with His infinite wisdom, can give us the experience, strength, and hope we need to be successful.

We wanted change but were not always willing to humbly ask God to make those changes in us.