Alethea Shares on Learning and Growing With Step 3

When I first began to look at this step, I already had a belief in a God, and the step was presented to me that I was to turn my life over to God. When something bothered me I heard turn it over to God, and like many others I would try and try again and almost always failed, because I kept taking it back to help God finish it (like He really needed my help!)

So I began to learn two things: to really leave something (like my life and will) with God meant leave it and believe He will really guide my life. Secondly, the reason that was so difficult was because I left some of the step out of my life -- which was "as we understood Him." No wonder I did not want to trust God with my life, I was clueless as to who He was and what He could do, so I had to make it my business to find out who God was so I could trust Him. As I began that journey, the more I found out about Him, the more of me I wanted to give Him.

Life on God's Terms

Then one day I had realized that He was doing such a great job that I decided to get out of the front seat all together and climb in the back seat, relax and enjoy the ride. Today riding in the back seat is the best view I have ever had of watching, learning and growing from this God that I understand and love very much.

Life on life's terms may not always be easy, but life on God's terms is, from my experience, much, much easier, and certainly a lot more freer. Step 3 has shown me how to take those beliefs of God, put them into action, and how to use God in my life.

Alethea

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