Thinking our Way or Thinking of the Way

AA spends a lot of time telling the members of the different "fellowships" what they should be thinking.

Thinking about ourselves all the time -- what a travesty. The idea is more open-minded thinking about other people, but I never found peace in that line of action.

Even if we are thinking about helping other people, inevitably we are thinking about ourselves, how we fit into the grand scheme of things on our own.

The program also teaches the members that they have to keep up their spiritual program:

We are not called to think a certain way in order to achieve certain things.

We are called to renew our minds to the truth of God's Word:

"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee." (Isaiah 26: 3)

To stay our mind on Him is to see that He holds the universe together, that He is on our side, right now!

He is right here, on your side, the Lord God who will never leave you nor forsake you.

I have learned so much from the revelation that too many of us love ourselves, we are too filled with ourselves, the feelings that we have, the thoughts that we battle. No wonder so many of us struggle in this life. We spend too much time looking at "us" and not at "Him" who has everything taken care of.

When you rest in the Truth, seeing Him who is invisible, you spend less time looking at your thoughts and feelings, and more time seeing Him, who is providing for all your needs according to His riches in glory.

The Devil's only trick is to distract us from the Lord God and all that He  Himself has for us, and force us to look to ourselves and to our efforts.

AA is just one more scam of the enemy, in that the program keeps us looking at ourselves, even when the Big Book declares that "self" is our biggest problem.

It;s not enough to define the problem. The solution, a new life, a new self is needed. Jesus in all His splendor,  the one who holds the Universe in His hands, the one whom the Father declared that no one can take out of His hand.

The last thing that we need to be doing is to think our own way. Instead, let us think on the Way, the Truth and the Life, who takes in all that we need and holds nothing back.