Step 03 – Trusting in God

Step 3

Decide to turn your will and your life over to the care of God the Eternal Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.

As an addict, you have trust issues. We went over some of them in step 2, where we sought to believe that God loved us & that he would help us. Now you will find yourself dealing with a different area of trust. In step 3 you have to learn to trust God to lead you aright.

Step 03 – The First Action Step

Step 3 from the Big Book of AA 

Made a decision to turn our life and our will over to the care of God as we understood him 

Step 3 from the LDS ARP Manual

Decide to turn your will and your life over to the care of God the Eternal Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.

Step 3 from He Did Deliver Me from Bondage

Made the decision to reconcile ourselves to the will of God, offer our whole souls as an offering unto Him, and trust Him in all things forever. (2 Nephi 10:24; Omni 1:26; Mosiah 3:19; 2 Nephi 4:34)

Step 3 is perhaps the most important of the steps. It is the first step that really gives you a good idea of the commitment involved in recovery. This is of course problematic as, being an addict, commitments are not things that you are used to taking seriously.