Promises of God, more than His Presence

Leaving aside the drink question, they tell why living was so unsatisfactory. They show how the change came over them. When many hundreds of people are able to say that the consciousness of the Presence of God is today the most important fact of their lives, they present a powerful reason why one should have faith.  (AA, pg 51)

Life is unsatisfactory for the sons of men because we are dead in trespasses:

"12Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 13(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come." (Romans5: 12-14)

There is hope in Christ Jesus, a hope with the certainty of good things to come:

"For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ." (Romans 5:17)

We need not just life, but we crave the opportunity to "reign in life", and this we can have when we receive Christ's abundance of grace and His gift of righteousness. We are called to keep receiving these two precious gifts.

I want more than an awareness of God. I need to know that before Him, I am fully justified, that He will never cast me aside, and that He favors me in all that I do. More than presence, let us practice the promises of God in our lives, which we receive through Christ.