God and Addiction: A Higher Power Explained

For those that struggle with an addiction, there comes a point in time when the implementation of accessible treatments become exhausted.  Be it alcohol, drugs, gambling or pornography, the pattern remains the same for individuals who have tried standard methods, yet still have a tendency to relapse as soon as life comes crushing in.

The Twelve Step program has its merits, all based on a perception of surrender, which when interpreted accurately is not the same as giving up.  In believing that we are more than a cellular heap, which seem to break down at a steady velocity, there comes the belief that man and woman maintain a spiritual fragment, whose ending is a mystery to say the least.

Twelve Step recovery is not an agenda sponsored by any religious congregate on entity.  However, persons using this program discover it in harmony with their own spiritual beliefs.  It has no authoritative religious affiliation.  It is, however, a program that helps us to rediscover and expand the spiritual part of ourselves.  Additionally we also realize through performing the twelve steps that our spirituality is valuable.  We learn to live our lives according to the guidance of God, our Higher Power.  When used as intended, the steps are a extremely powerful process for allowing God to heal damaged emotions.

The Twelve Step process of recovery is a spiritual journey.  It takes us from a life where we experience confusion and grief to a place of peace and serenity, one day at a time.  Many changes can and will occur over us, but they won’t come about all at once.  The process will take quite some time and much patience.  God, in his time, instills in us the power of character that only comes form a healthy relationship with him.

Working the Twelve Steps with God’s help enables us to acknowledge much of our destructive or repressed nature.  This process is akin to sunlight and shadow.  As soon as we stand in the sunlight, we realize that we cast a shadow.  In the same way, as we start to work the steps and measure ourselves by God’s standards and principles, we envision our need.  Through our connection with God we are able to redefine the limits we set for ourselves, and we gain the insight that all things are possible for those that love God.