The Truth about Sanity

Step 2 in Recovery tell us, "We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity."

The first thing anyone entering recovery needs to know if they are coming from generational dysfuction, generational addiction, generational alcoholism or any mixture of the above, you aren't going to be restored to sanity, you are going to be introduced to sanity.

What we have always known to be true is what we will accept and understand as truth.  By this principle, we come to accept unhealthy habits and dysfunction as normal. It's the the only way we have known. The only way to change that is to seek out something we don't know, to seek out a different truth.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. To get sanity, requires a change in action, thinking, and believing.

So where does truth come from? Well our higher power has left that for us to find in his word, the bible.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31-32

There is a lot of things we don't know as truth that we discover in the journey of recovery. These nuggets of truth come out as God convicts and corrects us from what we have known and done in the past. Through these pieces, a new life is formed. It is a life of sanity, and with sanity comes freedom from our hurts, habits and hangups. We are truly made new in Christ. 

A grateful Believer in Jesus Christ,
Johnna