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Members seek freedom from
Alcoholism
Anorexia & Bulimia
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Self-Injury
Sexual Promiscuity
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Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it
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Romans 12:2-3
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| 12:2 |
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable,
and perfect, will of God.
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| 12:3 |
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think;
but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
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12Step.org Comments:
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One thing that is so easy to have happen at any stage of the recovery process is to become arrogant, to think more of ourselves than we should.
Sometimes this arrogance can come because our life seems to be going well. By the 10th step we may feel that we are "on our way". If our
life has become easier, we may tend to forget the difficulties that recovery sometimes requires. These verses remind us to continue in
humility, to think soberly about our capabilities and our life before God, to not over-reach beyond the gifts that God has given us.
Only the Savior can save the world - not us - and we are called only to do the part that we have been given in God's plan - no more and
no less. By continuing to take personal inventory, we can stay real about our strengths and weaknesses, depending upon God for our
strength and remaining confident, humble and real with God and others.
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Philipians 2:12-13
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Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own
salvation with fear and trembling.
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For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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12Step.org Comments:
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Here in the book of Philipians, the apostle Paul is exhorting his fellow Christians to keep working out
"your own salvation with fear and trembling". The work of sanctification in Christ is a continual one, and we should be diligent
to continue taking personal inventory, reflecting on our walk with Christ, and when we find that we have done something worng that
we quickly take action to admit it and, if appropriate, make amends for it. This keeps us not only from falling back into old ways
of addiction, but also builds up our faith and witness in a stronger and stronger way. Then we can begin to fulfill the tasks of
helping others that God longs for us to be able to do.
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2 John 1:8
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Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
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12Step.org Comments:
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Recovery is hard work. We not only have to strive to live a normal life with all of its normal responsibilities, but we also have
to continue to work the steps and be constantly vigilant against the possibility of our addictive behaviors returning to us.
Here the apostle John is admonishing Christians to not lose what they have worked for. In terms of recovery, this means for us
to not slip back into old addictive behaviors. It means to not lose our freedom, which we have worked so hard and diligently to
gain and maintain. In order to do this, it is imperative that we continue to take personal inventory as we go through life.
In this way, we can maintain the hope that we will receive a full reward in the Lord.
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