I need to seek the truth, these has help me every time in the past whenever I need to start from day one going total abstinent.
Matthew 16:24-26 (NIV)
24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
25 For whoever wants to save their life, will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
When we die to self we set aside “our wants and desires” and instead focus on loving God, our family and our recovery. This moves us away from “self-centeredness” – selfish, self-centered and self-seeking ways.
One baby steps at a time, a day at a time, I had to deny my self-will and follow God’s will.
Step One of the suggested GA program of personal recovery contained in Twelve Steps:
1. We admitted we were powerless over gambling – that our lives had become unmanageable.
I like to borrow these lines from Vera;
I am powerless over gambling but only when I place the first bet. When I choose not to place that bet, gambling has no power over me. I have no doubt that if I make a wrong decision, my life will be totally unmanageable.