AA Demands -- Jesus Supplies

Another problem with Alcoholics Anonymous, which no one can deny (How about that, the word denial!)

While the program claims to offer people power to deal with life's problems, the truth is that men and women are still operating out of their own lack, their own finite resources, even if they do end up quitting alcohol abuse.

Frankly, I need to know that the God who cares for me, still cares for me even when I fail.

I do not see any value on believing that God, no matter how one may understand him, can be blocked or removed from us by how we feel.

A life of looking at and guarding one's feelings causes nothing but pain and frustration.

Not only that, but all the distractions taken up with ourselves take us away from Himself, and His great supply for all things:

"31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" (Romans 8: 31-32)


Let us not forget this promise:

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ" (Ephesians 1: 6)

Later in the same letter, Paul writes:

"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)

and in Philippians:

"13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. " (Philippians 4: 13)

followed by

"19But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. 20Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen." (Philippians 4: 19-20)

I do not want to waste one more minute missing out on all the goodness that is in Christ:

"8Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:" (Colossians 2: 8-10)

While AA demands that members work a bankrupted program which aggravates man's sinful weaknesses, Jesus Christ supplies grace and righteousness as gifts through Himself (Romans 5: 17), that we may reign in His Life.

I am grateful to the growing revelation of all that I can be, have, and do because He is my life (Colossians 3: 4) as opposed to an empty humanistic cult which masquerades as a real solution to man's deepest need.