The huge difference between resignation and surrender.
Resignation is what we feel when we realize we are gambling addict but have not yet accepted recovery as the solution to our problem.
Surrender on the other hand, is what happen after we accepted we are powerless over our gambling that our lives has become unmanageable and have accepted recovery is the solution.
We don’t want our lives to be the way they have been.
We don’t want to keep feeling the way we have been feeling.
Questions
1. What am I afraid of about the concept of surrender, if anything?
2. What convinces me that I can’t gamble successfully anymore?
3. Do I accept that I will never regain control, even after a long period of abstinence?
4. Can I begin my recovery without a complete surrender ?
5. What would my life be like if I surrender completely?
6. Can I continue my recovery without completely surrender?
Romans 7:18-21New International Version (NIV)
18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[a] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20