Stop Looking at Yourself -- See His Perfect Love

The whole AA regime is centered around self.

I do not care how many times people pray "relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do thy will" found in the Third Step Prayer, because either Jesus Christ, in dying on the Cross, has set us free from ourselves, by taking s from dead in our trespasses, or He has not.

There is no grey, there is no maybe about the life of victory that He calls for us to live:

"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." (Romans 8: 37)

This love with which He loved us is a love that we need to grow in knowledge of:

"That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

"The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints." (Ephesians 1: 17-18)

and then

"That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." (Ephesians 3: 16-19)

This love casts out every fear, through this love God can then give us beyond what we ask or think.

This love is Jesus dying on the Cross for our sins (1 John 4: 10), and so no wonder the Enemy spends a lot of time keeping people in bondage to the Law, keeping people occupied with themselves, keeping men and women caught up in the turmoil of choices and consequences which for God are no longer present to Him, since He has pledges that He will remember our sins no more!