Wobble

For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.

‭‭Romans‬ ‭4‬:‭14‬

The twelve steps are a fantastic but incomplete prescription for living.

And by incomplete, I only mean that they’re not a transaction to be completed once, twice or as needed.

They’re not a comprehensive contract between God and us.

They’ve been a formative, life-saving, simple, direct instruction manual for making a beginning.

But continual growth is explicitly laid out in the steps themselves.

I must continue “working” them for a lifetime.

This business of spiritual formation and growth is not a one-and-done event.

I cannot simply stay between the lines of the precepts of sober living and get by for the rest of my life.

That implies a mindless compliance, the likes of which fueled my initial rebellious spiral.

I look at the steps today as a map leading into the spiritual jet stream.

Yes, I can and should continue to practice these principles every day. Yes, I should continue in the many general suggestions laid out.

But as described in 10, 11, and 12, I need to go deeper to grow deeper in my faith.

I want a faith that is living and growing and moving through my life.

I want a faith that makes me uncomfortable.

I want a faith that continues to mold me.

God, fuel me for the day ahead.

Cheers, Eamonn
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