Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 8/21/13 - Step 4 - Taking Responsibility

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Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 8/21/13 - Step 4 - Taking Responsibility

"On October 31 the people assembled again, and this time they fasted and dressed in burlap and sprinkled dust on their heads. Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all foreigners as they confessed their own sins and the sins of their ancestors. They remained standing in place for three hours while the Book of the Law of the Lord their God was read aloud to them. Then for three more hours they confessed their sins and worshiped the Lord their God." Nehemiah 9:1-3

Step 4: We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

One of the things that makes the 4th Step so significant to ongoing recovery is that in many ways since coming to Christ and into recovery this is the first time that we begin to really take responsibility for our actions in the past. Up until this point we have had something someone to blame it on. Even once we came out of what was destroying us we blamed it on our sin nature or the disease or the enemy or our flesh. Even in looking at it as flesh it was more like we were seeing the flesh across the street somewhere rather than as a part of us. It's time in the inventory process to begin examining ourselves on a deep enough level to start seeing the exact nature of not just what we did but why we did it. However we can't get to the why unless we accept total responsibility for the what.