Not a "Daily Reprieve", but Eternal Life and Everlasting Righteousness

It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our activities. "How can I best serve Thee - Thy will (not mine) be done." These are thoughts which must go with us constantly. We can exercise our will power along this line all we wish. It is the proper use of the will. (AA, pg 85)

This passage alone accounts for much of the unrest in members who frequent the meetings.

The Bible does not promise a "daily reprieve", but eternal life:

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3: 16)

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"And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." (1 John 5: 11)

God "has given" us this new life. Not something that we have to hold onto through our own efforts, but a gift:

"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:" (Ephesians 2: 4-8)

Even the Old Testament promises more than "a daily reprieve":

"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy." (Daniel 9: 24)

Go to the very beginning, and the "Sabbath rest" which God instituted was never supposed to have an end. The first six days of Creation had "morning and evening." Consider the seventh day:

"1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." (Genesis 2:1-3)

There is no mention of "morning and evening." God instituted this "Sabbath rest" to never end, and thus man and woman, Adam and Eve would live in Holy Communion with God forever.

Today, every believer is not called to "take his inventory", or rehearse his sins, but rather to "labor" to enter the rest" (Hebrews 4: 9-11), a rest in which we keep in receiving His gift of righteousness and grace (Romans 5: 17) so that all things are added unto to us in Christ (Romans 8: 31-32)