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Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 3/31/12 - Step 2 - The Process of Coming to Believe

"For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes—the Jew first and also the Gentile. This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.” But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness. They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God." Romans 1:16-20 NLT

Step 2: We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

For most of us there is not one particular event, experience or circumstance that is the singular reason we now believe in God and that He is our path to recovery. It is usually a process, a combination of events, or to use a legal term a preponderance of evidence that begins to convince us that He is our source of help and strength.

In Step 1 we admitted that we, in and of ourselves, didn't have the ability to help ourselves, and now after probably searching for several things to substitute with are beginning to see the evidence that we are incomplete without God. Every one of us was born with a God shaped whole in our soul, a space so vast that only God can fill it. We have probably spent our lives trying to fill that hole with everything we can find only to finally begin to realize that nothing outside of us would fill it. There is not enough sex, money, drugs, bad relationships, jobs, degrees, self help books, material wealth, etc. to take the place of a relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

When we really look at the evidence of how badly we ran our own lives, and how devastating the choices we made could be, it becomes hard not to realize He can help us. For some of us it make take a while to see the mountain of evidence that we were destroying ourselves and that He is the only One that can fix it. However, once that revelation comes to us, we can truly begin to heal. It is a great relief once finding out that we can't help ourselves that there is a Power that can, and He is just patiently and lovingly waiting for us to ask.