“Recovery” without Christ is equivalent to spraying Febreeze on a corpse…you may fool a couple of people like in those silly air freshener commercials who blindfold unsuspecting customers – masking some disgusting scenario with a pleasant smell….but to those not wearing a blindfold – the reality of the decay of your soul is undeniable.
How terribly tragic that it has been made ok for you to struggle along with your secret porn addiction…your compulsive dieting, your twisted fantasies and medicated reality…how utterly reprehensible that people have chosen to kowtow to your bullshit because they are afraid of being labeled ‘judgmental’…when the truth is, they just don’t give a shit about you enough to tell you the truth. They would rather be seen as the friendly Dali Lama than a fire breathing preacher in order to spare themselves the task of taking you to task! And let’s not forget the secret covenant they create with you….to look the other way…so that God forbid you would never call them out on the sick depravity they peddle for recovery.
Sorry girls and boys…cutting yourself, wallowing in depression, hopping from bed to bed, popping pills, munching on laxatives, and reducing the program of real recovery to a bunch of ritualized steps that take the edge off of your debauchery does not qualify as recovery. You are no more IN recovery than you are walking on Mars.
That’s the bad news! Here’s even worse news. You can find a way to stop acting out in all those behaviors…you can tear yourself away from your pretentious self-analysis and your self indulgent celebration of “progress not perfection”…you could clean up…and pull yourself together and stop all your “sinning”…and you will still be just as dead in spirit as those in total debauchery. Because there is no process or behavioral modification that will give you Life. Only He – who IS Life can give you that. And there is only ONE who Is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Jesus Christ. From him comes true deliverance from sin and oppression.
Although he is by nature the very definition of why the Gospel is called the “Good News”…to many struggling with addiction and sin…and to many who think they are safe from that struggle – that is bad news! They think they have life already…a new life, a recovered life, a work in progress life. They are having a nice tea party on the Titanic and here comes the “Christian” being a party pooper!
But without Christ you are still a corpse – no matter how much Febreeze you pour on. And somewhere in the stillness of your soul you can know this and become ready to hear the REAL Good news. I don’t know who will receive it and who won’t, but I do know that there are some, who will. That is my business. That is my task, to speak to you as if you are Lazarus who the Christ is calling from the tomb and asking me to remove his bandages and loose him. I am here to take the grave clothes off of you.
“Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. “Take away the stone,” he said.
“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”
Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”
So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
(John 11:38-44)
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What an absolute crock of shit , the 12 step recovery program is not about Jesus Or Allah or any other such deity or imaginary characters , it is a process to awaken the human spirit and recover from an illness for which there is no known cure .
Such hatred preached in such a way has only a detrimental effect
It is arrogant , it is conceited it is also exclusive and elitist spoken by a religious nazi where your god is the only god in a book written by men where it contradicts itself over and over and has been lost in translation .
I pity this egomaniacal statement for what it is
And if my soul be dammed for being a spiritual and NOT religious person if such a place as heaven even exists
Then why oh why should it bother you ?
I understand how this makes you feel Carl – really…I have been there! But – this is not only MY truth, so it has nothing to do with being egomaniacal at all…since I personally did not come up with it. Everything you are saying and feeling is upside down and inside out! But there is a way to move past it – and it begins with a genuine humility to ask: …is this true? Is it possible that God is not who I am making him up to be – is it possible that there is a True God? Regardless of your finite opinion on that…is it possible you’re wrong? Are you very sure of your defense that you will give when you stand before God when you die? Are you willing to gamble your eternal soul on such an opinion. Why does it bother me? Because I am absolutely sure of where you are headed if you die in your sins…and it will not matter how “spiritual” you think you have lived. God is much more likely to answer you – when you are willing to pursue Truth..rather than pursue what feels right. Sorry Carl – but the recovery process was never meant to “awaken” the human spirit in some dressed up process of self-worship, it would do you well to look into the biblically based history of where recovery actually came from….and if you still think that my position and posts are just “Nazi” hate and conceit then don’t read my blog!
You rock Layla. This is one of the best posts I have ever read on “recovery” – lol..I guess some of the corpses don’t want to hear it!
Can you repost this somewhere on FB or my blog? As it’s not letting me do it from my end.
much appreciated.
For a very long time I tried not to see just how corrupt most people’s “god” in AA really was – but once I saw behind the curtain to what was really behind this “Great Oz” – there was no turning back.
Thanks for your blog, it is refreshing and encouraging. God bless you.
How arrogant!! For people to come on here and attack your posts and insult you for not being….open minded!! Are you kidding? If I don’t like something I read – I generally just leave the page – I don’t dump my resentment on the author. But I guess the sting of truth hurts too much to do that.
This is actually really refreshing. I mean come on folks let’s get our heads out of the sand – less that what 2-3% of people are actually staying sober…and most of those who are get sicker and sicker.