"One Day at a Time" is Not Good Enough

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)

Just reading this passage now, after getting a greater understanding of Jesus Christ and all that He is, just makes me weary and despair.

Imagine a life in which we are called to live this "life" of "carrying God's vision" into every day.

Every day, waking up and asking the dry question "What is thy bidding, my master?"

"How can I best serve Thee - Thy will (not mine) be done."

Jesus invites us into a greater communion:

"Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you." (John 15: 15)

When Jesus rose from the dead in His resurrected form, He offered an even more dear affiliation to His disciples and to all of us:

"Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." (John 20: 17)

"Go to my brethren", Jesus says to Mary.

We are adopted into God's family!

"For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." (Romans 8: 15-17)

 Jesus is the first born of many brethren:, which includes everyone who believes on His Name:

"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:" (John 1: 12)

and

"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." (Romans 8: 29)

God does not want us to see Him as a "master", but rather as our Father, or as "Daddy". This deepest of unions is more than any husband or wife or brother or sister, or friend can ever understand.

We are united with Jesus, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Herbews 13: 8)

He is outside of time, seeing one day as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day (2 Peter 3: 8)

He knows everything about us, and no matter where we go, He is there, and leading us the whole way, too (Psalm 139)

Jesus is the Way -- We can trust Him to lead us, because He is before all things, and all things do through Him consist. (Colossians 1: 15-20)

He has everything laid out for us. In fact, He is outside of time, unlimited by circumstances.

"He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end." (Ecclesiastes 3: 11)

and

"Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it." (Ecclesiastes 8: 17)'

and

"Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!" (Romans 11: 33)

Instead of taking life "One day at a time", God invites us to cast all our care upon Him (1 Peter 5: 6-8)

As new creations in Christ (2 Corinthians 5: 17), we are outside of time, walking in a New Kingdom, and when we pray to Him, He can work in our circumstances as He quickens us to move.

"One day at a time" is not good enough. God is greater than time itself, and He foresees all that we need. Through His Son, we can be assured that He will care for us as He lives through us and provides all things.