Coming To Believe

Coming to Believe

Bible Reading: Romans 1:18-20

We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

To say that we “came to believe” in anything describes a process. Belief is the result of consideration, doubt, reasoning, and concluding. Forming beliefs shows the mark of God’s image in our lives. It involves emotion and logic. It leads to action. What’s the process that leads to solid belief, which leads us to change our lives?

We start with our own experience. We see what doesn’t work. Looking at the condition of our lives, we realize that there isn’t enough power in ourselves to restore us to sanity. We try with all our might, but to no avail. When we’re quiet enough to listen, we hear that little voice inside us saying, “There is a God and he’s extremely powerful.” The apostle Paul said it this way: “They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them” (Romans 1:19).

After looking at our internal weakness, we then need to look outside ourselves. We need to see that there are others who have struggled with addictions and recovered. We can see that they, too, were unable to heal themselves, yet they are able to live free of the addictive behavior. We conclude that there must be a greater Power that helped them. Since we can see the similarities between their struggle and our own, we come to believe that there must be a Power greater than ourselves that can restore us to sanity also. This is where many people are when they get to Step Two; and it’s a good place to be on the way to recovery.

God has put knowledge about himself inside each of us, but sometimes we can see him best in others.