One often talks about the ‘tools’ of the programme.
This is fine and good (the Big Book even refers to such tools) but the danger is that I stand above the programme, bigger than it, taking things from it to pursue my own purposes.
Rather, I should be the instrument of the Higher Power, not in a conceited or elevated way, but as a humble doer of daily things, through which God’s will is done, usually without my awareness or understanding.