Wednesday, May 29, 2013

ARE WE ALL IN NEED OF AA?

My good friend Sharon Hersh, author of the powerful The Last Addiction, penned with incredible accuracy, Everyone loves something too much.  Everyone struggles with passion gone awry.....We all suffer from the same condition.  We all seek a resting place from striving and suffering, and we often cling to what promises to be a haven, only to find out that we have created our own hell.

For any who are proud that you don't suffer the addiction of being an alcoholic, may I suggest you presently suffer from something just as self-defeating.  If not addicted to sex or to drugs, it is certain you are addicted to some other overpowering vice; controlling others, being popular, spending more money than income, or complaining about how rotten your life is. 

Something owns you/us.  We are all in need of some form of AA.

The Word of God, the system of His Kingdom, and the Spirit of His Son awaits our interest.  Each has already made the first move toward us.  Each reaching for our rescue, we would do well to believe back.

However, our addictions tend to fog our brains to the extent we are foolishly proud as well as vulnerably independent.  Give us time; we will right this straying ship.  We believe we can do life's improvements by our own building technique.  Try harder and set your mind to it and just focus keeps the ball in our courts.  We know we can win if we just get one small right break.  That's all we need to be alright once again.

When we think we can save ourselves for we surely aren't THAT BAD, our ignorance continues to mislead us.  The Cross does not communicate that, with a slight correction here and there, we will be as good as new if we just DO better.  As hard as we try, effort turns to mush for only the Divine can save us from our own addictive deterioration.  We are that corroded. 

Reading our Bibles, hitting the mall on a shopping spree, or confessing determined resolutions will not improve the condition of the soul as long as we believe we are in charge of responsible restoration.  We are not.  We can't.

God is.  God can.  God did.

The church can quarrel and squabble and snip and snarl at one another and others all it wants.  All is cheap and unproductive religion.  Until we admit how terribly and embarrassing lost we would be without Jesus, we will never worship wildly our Holy Father in Spirit form. 

May we try to yield to Him.  Upon such a move, may we cut loose with praise and worship galore for He indeed is mighty, wonderful, and powerful!  He saved us from ourselves.  This we perpetually need.








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