AA Demands: Christ Gives Us All Things

AA suggests that members can believe in a "loving God" who helps them in their time of need.

In reality, no one can trust a God who sometimes loves them, then gets separated from us when we get angry, or resentful:

It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worth while. But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. We found that it is fatal. For when harboring such feelings we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit. The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die. (AA, pg 66)

Nothing can separate us from the Love of God (Romans 8: 38-39)

No one can trust in another person's love if how we feel or what we think can prevent God from working in our lives.

He lives in us not because of anything that we have done, or do, but because Jesus Christ has completed all things:

"Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also." (John 14: 19)

And Christ is our life, much more than a program:

"I am the way, the truth, and the life." (Joihn 14: 6)

and

"For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." (Colossians 3: 3-4)

We receive all things in Christ, as well:

"Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; 22Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 23And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's." (1 Corinthians 3: 21-23)

AA demans from us, but in Christ we receive all things, and in Him we do all things (1 John 4: 9)