Meditations on "Rationalizing"

Once we’ve admitted to God what’s wrong, why must we share these details with someone else?

Audio for TWELVE STEPS OF A.A. - STEP FIVE - EXACT NATURE OF MY WRONGS(1) Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked.

There may be times when we feel we will never conquer this desire within us to rebel against the God who made us and who desires that we should walk in His ways.

Two of the many reasons we excuse giving into temptation and rationalizing our behaviour are: 1) We want what sin has to offer us.

Rationalizing is a thought process where we provide a reasonable but untrue argument for harmful actions we plan to take, or have taken.

Exact Nature of our Wrongs (1) Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.

STEP 5 – We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.