"How frail is humanity! How short is life, how full of trouble! We blossom like a flower and then wither. Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear. Must you keep an eye on such a frail creature and demand an accounting from me? Who can bring purity out of an impure person? No one! You have decided the length of our lives. You know how many months we will live, and we are not given a minute longer. So leave us alone and let us rest! We are like hired hands, so let us finish our work in peace." Job 14:1-6 NLT
Step 2: We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
The reality of surrendering control in Step 1 is that we are left with a void. One of the common mistakes made is the attempt to fill the void, not necessarily with whatever brought us to powerlessness, but with some new thing, even positive things in order not to feel empty. The problem with that approach is that we are still looking for something on the outside of us to fix what's wrong on the inside of us. We are looking for a natural solution to a spiritual problem.
The reason that we never feel full from this approach is because the void is the empty place in our soul that is designed only to be filled with a relationship with God. The void is the absence of the Divine in our lives. The reason we can't fill it is because the void so immense that it can only contain the immensity of God. Us filling it is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with a toy shovel. The only way to fill it is by beginning to surrender ourselves to Him in the Person of Jesus Christ and allowing the Holy Spirit to fill us.
Sometimes the only way we come to that awareness is not by trying to fill the void, but by feeling the void and being honest with ourselves about how big it is in order to truly come to the realization the there is nothing we can fill it with but God.
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