Wings Devotional Recovery ... April 1st, 2008

Step Four -- Just For Today -- Deception

Step Four: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

“If, however, our natural disposition is inclined to self-righteousness or grandiosity, our reaction will be just the opposite … We shall claim that our serious character defects, if we think we have any at all, have been caused chiefly by excessive drinking.  This being so, we think it logically follows that sobriety -- first, last, and all the time -- is the only thing we need to work for.  We believe that our one-time good characters will be revived the moment we quit alcohol.  If we were pretty nice people all along, except for our drinking, what need is there for a moral inventory now that we are sober?”

© 2005, AAWS, Inc.; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 45

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Just for Today -- A Daily Devotional

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Blaming our character defects on the alcohol and thinking that staying sober makes restores our "loving" character is a lie from the pit of hell.  Even those who are not addicts are those in need of change.  When we come into truth - that we need God to make our lives make sense - we have to begin a change from the inside. 

As addicts our character is what got us into addiction in the first place.  Getting to a point of not drinking/not using is a temporary fix and if we don't change from the inside out beginning with little steps under God's direction, they we are constantly vulnerable to the threat of taking that first drink! 

Don't think that you can't change, or that you don't need to change you do - we all do - because God wants us to grow ever closer to the image of Him who made us - that requires change -

16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view.  Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 

18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. -- I Corinthians 5: 16-18

* 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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