Wings Devotional Recovery ... April 7, 2008

Step Four -- Just For Today -- Instinct

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

"Every time a person imposes his instincts unreasonably upon others, unhappiness follows… Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection, and love can only invite domination or revulsion in the protectors themselves -- two emotions quite as unhealthy as the demands which evoked them … Other people often suffer and revolt … In these ways we are set in conflict not only with ourselves, but with other people who have instincts, too.

“Alcoholics especially should be able to see that instinct run wild in themselves is the underlying cause of their destructive drinking.”

© 2005, AAWS, Inc.; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 44

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Just for Today -- A Daily Devotional

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Instinct - is defined as a characteristic of a species and is often response to specific environmental stimuli -- exactly why instinct in an addict should be immediately suspicious -- it is our instinct to drink/use and we have run wild with it.

We can only trust that which is always the same, never changes, true and powerful and that is God.  We don't need to rely on our instinct, He has given us His word, His will and His power to work all things out - - that is what we should trust and that is what we should show to others - - nothing less.

Jude 1:17-19 (New International Version)

17 But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold.

18 They said to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires."

19 These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.

* 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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