Dear diary
Recovery is getting sweeter, I would see stuff that I could not describe in the past now.
The 12 steps recovery program is like a discipleship program.
The disciple is a follower, one who accepts and assists in spreading the recovery message to another suffering addict.
A Christian disciple is a person who accepts and assists in the spreading of the good news of Jesus Christ.
Christian discipleship is the process by which disciples grow in the Lord Jesus Christ and are equipped by the Holy Spirit, who resides in our hearts, to overcome the pressures and trials of this present life and become more and more Christ like.
This process requires believers to respond to the Holy Spirit’s prompting to examine their thoughts, words and actions and compare them with the Word of God.
This requires that we be in the Word daily—studying it, praying over it, and obeying it.
In addition, we should always be ready to give testimony of the reason for the hope that is within us (1 Peter 3:15) and to disciple others to walk in His way.
We must be obedience and doers of the Word.
Discipleship requires a totally committed life: “Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:33). Sacrifice is expected: “Jesus said to his disciples, ‘If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me’” (Matthew 16:24).
I had to deny my selfish, self-centered and self-seeking ways practicing total abstinence in recovery.
There was so much in common that they feel like one when following both God’s word and the 12 steps recovery program.
