March 17: Going Out Not Knowing Where
You don’t know what a sober life looks like. You’ve never really lived one as an adult.
“By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.”
God told Abraham to leave his country, his relatives and his father’s house and go to a land He would show him. Abraham went. Hebrews says he went out not knowing where he was going.
He didn’t have a map. He had a promise and a God.
That’s what faith looks like in Step Three. You decide to turn your will and life over to God’s care, and you don’t fully know what’s on the other side. What will your friendships look like? Your evenings? Your weekends? Holidays? Your marriage? Will you be boring? Will you be happy?
Those are real questions. Many people in early sobriety feel a kind of grief for the life they’re leaving, even though that life was hurting them. It was familiar. It had its rituals. Leaving it, even for something better, means stepping into the unknown.
Abraham felt that too. He left everything familiar. But he didn’t go alone. God went with him, and showed him the way one stage at a time.
You don’t need to know where the whole road leads to take the next step. You just need to trust the One leading. And you need to keep walking.
People who’ve walked this road ahead of you often say the sober life turned out to be far fuller than they imagined. Not perfect. Not easy. But fuller. They found new friends, new joys, real relationships, a faith that actually works. They couldn’t have described it on day one. They found it by walking.
Step Three doesn’t ask you to know the destination. It asks you to decide to go. Then the next steps of the program, starting with Step Four, are how you actually walk it out.
Abraham’s journey started with one decision and one step out the door.
One thing today
Write down your biggest fear about what sober life might be like. Then ask someone with more sober time what that part of their life turned out to be.
A prayer
God, I don’t know where this road goes. But I’m going because You’re leading. Show me the way one step at a time, and stay close.
Walking by faith is Step Three.
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