Step 4: An Honest Look at Myself (Part 1)

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This step is the perfect example why the steps are in this order. When I was in the throes of my addiction and even when I became addiction free, this 4th step was a huge challenge. It was like asking a person with a mental illness, (insanity, if you will), to make a rational judgement about their life. They usually can’t, unless they start to clear up what is causing their mental ‘fog’.

After accepting the first 3 steps, I developed a sense of God’s love, a feeling of ‘blessed assurance’ that I was now consecrated to God and would be safe no matter what.

This step, and those that follow, especially 5,6,7,8, and 9, are not meant to make us ‘right with God’. That has already happened. My Spirit is A-OK and needs no help. These steps are to help my human self clear the way, to create, as close as possible, a ‘tabula rasa’ to allow my Spirit to use me and to work through me.