God is Far More than We Can Understand

We were now at Step Three. Many of us said to our Maker, as we understood Him: "God, I offer myself to Thee-to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do Thy will always!" We thought well before taking this step making sure we were ready; that we could at last abandon ourselves utterly to Him. (AA, pg 63)

I cannot write about this element enough time.

A god of my understanding is a god that is not "godly" enough.

The first verse of the Book of Psalms warns against this ridiculous counsel:

"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." (Psalm 1: 1)

The counsel of the ungodly is any counsel which does not come from the Word of God:

"2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night." (Psalm 1: 2)

We are called upon to  meditate on the Word of God, or more specifically: "The law of the LORD."

The word "LORD" renders to Hebrew Tetragrammaton: YHWH - which pronounces that God was, is, and always. God has never not been, and He is very much now with us, and He will be with us forever:

"Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." (Hebrews 13: 5)

and

"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." (Hebrews 13: 8)

If we really want to know God, to know who He is, not just guess with feigned ideas and empty gestures, then we must consult the Word of God, which depicts Him in all of us love, grace, majesty, and eternal power.

God who is outside of time, outside of our troubles, who takes us from our lowest lows and raises us to sit i heavenly places in Christ, this God cannot be reasoned or created from within the mind of man. By revelation through the Holy Spirit do we understand God.

AA's god is actually the cult creation of Bill Wilson, who created this nonentity of self-righteous aggrandizement so that he perpetuate a following which on the surface seems to affirm the individual need of man, yet in truth brings him into a subtle conformity with the pressure of other members in the group, more specifically the "Old Timers".