Recently, I got to make the acquaintance of a young lady new to Alcoholic’s Anonymous – Like most Alcoholics who rarely sober up under ideal conditions 🤔… She had her share of issues she was sorting out -wreckage of the past is what we like to call it. She mentioned numerous times that she had prayed to God for guidance and wisdom, and that she had not received an answer (no answer is an answer).
Many times we our selves know the answer(s), we just don’t like it(them)! So we move on, continuing to search for “The right one”, which of course 🤔 has already been and gone. We become so convinced “we have yet to find or been given an answer” that we:
•Blame God/others
•Settle for…
•Substitute…
•Overcompensate/undercompensate
•Give up/in…
•Rebel
•Get angry
•Continue wandering; searching aimlessly; hopelessly
NO ANSWER IS AN ANSWER
God knows us better than we know our selves. He knows for example:
•It’s pointless to give you an answer, when you’ve never listened to Him before (nor intend to in this particular case;
•That you/we already have the answer(s); now it’s up to you/us to apply the strength, courage, wisdom, virtue which lay dormant within us -AND DO THE RIGHT THING!
•And sometimes no answer means -DO NOTHING (for the moment -and trust* in my will).
God would NEVER HARM US. Therefore:
1. God will ALWAYS do for us -what we CANNOT do for our selves;
2. God will NEVER do for us -what we CAN do for our selves. To do so would interfere with our becoming more God-like. More Christ-like.
*When we meet a person for the first time:
•We don’t know them, or what to expect.
•We throw in our own assumptions about them good or bad.
•As we get to know them better, those assumptions get replaced with facts -via experience.
•We either learn to trust or mistrust through this process -to gain or lose trust.
•This is what it is like for an Alcoholic when he or she is faced with the prospect of a trusting in a relationship with God in order for him or her to stay sober. WE LEARN TO TRUST (OR NOT) BY TRUSTING. God not only understands, He really doesn’t mind the fact that MOST OF US are tied to a process which involves time, and experience before we CAN AND WILL TRUST! God’s no dummy!
two kinds of people in the 🌎:
1. The one’s who TRUST -until WE give them a reason not to;
2. The one’s who DON’T TRUST -until WE give them a reason to.