Wings Devotional Recovery ... March 19, 2008

JUST FOR TODAY! -- Insurance

From "March 1941 SATURDAY EVENING POST:"

"In discussing their work, the AAs spoke of their drunk-rescuing as 'insurance' for themselves.  Experience within the group has shown, they said, that once a recovered drinker slows up in this work he is likely to go back to drinking himself.  There is, they agreed, no such thing as an ex-alcoholic.  If one is an alcoholic -- that is, a person who is unable to drink normally -- one remains an alcoholic until he dies, just as a diabetic remains a diabetic."

c. The Jack Alexander Article about AA (AA Pamphlet P-12), pages 13-14

Wings Devotional© Daily Meditation Translation

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Just for Today -- A Daily Devotional

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I don’t like to compare addiction to diabetes because addiction boils down to a choice or not using.  We will always be sick because of this problem with have with saying NO to whatever addiction has grabbed us.  But the insurance that can come in our lives – is God’s will first, working the steps, loving our fellow humans and serving others.

When we stop “working” that program then we will likely go back to our old ways and methods -- Stay focused on God and the program he has set you in. 

If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your forefathers.  He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers.  He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land -- your grain, new wine and oil -- the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land that he swore to your forefathers to give you.  You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor any of your livestock without young.  The LORD will keep you free from every disease.  He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you.  You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God gives over to you.  Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you. -- Deuteronomy 7: 12-16

* As you make your requests known to the Lord, include:

·        greater personal discipline,

·        worldwide persecuted Christians,

·        Hedge of protection to our children

·        Blessings to our spouses

·        Godly men in Government

·        Rest and Peace to our pastors

·        Your activities for the day.

Love One Another

Stand Together

Fight this war, no matter the cost

Pray for our children

Turn our hearts toward heaven

Seek to be one nation under God.

God Bless and Guide You in your Christian Walk Today

“The Lord bless you and keep you,
the Lord make his face shine upon you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”
-- Numbers 6:24-27

You can help when no one else can."
  -- c. 2001, Alcoholics Anonymous, page 89
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