Speaking Out Who You are -- In Christ

"God, Grant me the serenity"

"My name is. . .and I am an alcoholic."

"We are like men who have lost their legs. We never grow new ones."

All of this talk, all of this labeling, all of this self-deprecation sets up men and women who enter the meetings to stay in the meetings.

"We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;" (2 Corinthians 4: 13)

Then

"For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

"Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

"And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses." (Mark 11: 23-25)

It's all about what we say. We are called to speak forth the Truth, for man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord (Matthew 4: 4)

AA is based on people saying that they are "fleas, dogs, and worms", that they are sick people, insane, with a disease from which they can never break free, but from which they have but a daily reprieve.

Religious people also believe, in line with the sick cult of AA, that we must think very lowly of ourselves, not think of ourselves in a positive light, or we will go out and drink again.

On the contrary: when we perceive ourselves to be bad, wrong, out of step, the condemnation that ensues leads us to keep engaging in the perversions that keep us in bondage, we keep on practicing the sins.

Scripture confirms this:

"Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:" (Romans 5: 20)

and

"56The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law." (1 Corinthians 15: 56)

When Jesus Christ died on the Cross for our sins, He died for all of our sins, and we receive the Spirit of Adoption (Romans 8: 15), we are then seated in heavenly places in Christ (Ephesians 2: 6). In Christ, we are "more than conquerors" (Romans 8: 37)

We are accepted in Christ (Ephesians 1: 6), not fleas, dogs, and worms.

Often, I hear people say things like "God don't make junk." But God did more than not make us junk. He died on the Cross to take us from dead in our sins to alive in Christ, that we may reign in life in Christ (Romans 5: 17)

AA is a nasty cult which teaches people to live in shame, breathe out shame, walk in shame, to perceive themselves as never quite measuring up.

In Christ, we are made the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Corinthians 5: 21)

Stop speaking out what Bill W. wanted you to think of yourself. See yourself in Christ, and see yourself as God sees you:

"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4: 17)