Rest In Jesus, not Unrest in Bill

Alcoholics Anonymous is dedicated to one thing:

Unrest.

The whole cult is built up on a fraud of keeping people busy with a sense of shame and unfinished business.

Because the cult defines people as sick alcoholics who cannot trust their own thinking, who depend on a god who comes and goes depending on our feelings, the result is a group of people who are chronically looking to someone else, waiting for the next meeting, hoping for the thirty minutes to one hour when they can sit down and share their fears and woes.

The whole thing is a scam and a fraud.

I am just getting in touch with how busy and frenetic the whole affair becomes.

Everyone has to get busy staying one step ahead of their perversion, or else.

This is insanity.

Today, I am starting to realize why there was such a sense of unrest in my life

No one had ever told me that the work was Finished.

I never believed it, because I had been raised to adhere to a nasty cult.

It was up to me to hold onto God, and I had to keep my feelings in line, my thoughts in line.

So much focusing on what we must do, we miss out on everything that He has done.

"When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." (John 19: 30)

Such a waste of time and energy. The issue is never intellect or the lack thereof. The conflict comes down to why are we using up so much of our time and energy for purposes which do not matter, or which do not make a difference?

There is not one thing that you and I can bring to all that Jesus did for us.

Not one thing:

"Even 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: 9Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." (Ephesians 2: 5-10)

By grace you are saved. By grace you are saved; not of works, but the gift of God.

Get it?

Many Christians still do not get it. Yet the answer is not despair and condemnation. It is all about growing in grace, understanding that Jesus did so much, and yet more than we can know in a finite time, at the Cross.

"For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." (1 John 2: 2)

Why are why worrying about tomorrow, when we have the eternal sacrifice of Jesus, who was and is and is to come, our High Priest forever?

We are called to rest in Jesus, who is our Perfect Representative.

What did Bill Wilson try to do? Make himself a guru, a Christ-figure, trying to making himself a savior, and instead he created nothing but pain, failure, and death. He died a miserable death, which he deserved, for having misled so many people.

There is nothing but unrest in Alcoholics Anonymous. Unrest is the rule, not the exception, with the sense that everyone of us is just one day ahead, one drink ahead of stupor and death.

No. We are more than conquerors in Christ! (Romans 8: 37)

We are not trying to win, we have already won! It's time to rest. It's to let Him live in us:

"1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3For 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: 1-4)