“take away my difficulties” (Chapter 5, Big Book)
I do not ‘give my difficulties’ to God. He does not need them or want them.
The context of this phrase is Step Three and the programme as a whole.
The programme asks me to seek and do God’s will, in the place of seeking and doing the ego’s will.
On a compass, true north is only one of the degrees of the three hundred and sixty.
The other three hundred and fifty-nine are not true north.
Almost everything that occurs to me is not true north: it is the ego’s will.
The programme appears entirely about redirection of my will to align with God’s will not the ego’s will.
My will power then activates movement in that direction, the direction of true north, the direction of God.
When I do the right thing, the wrong action ceases to exist.
When I think the right thing, the wrong thought ceases to exist.
When I believe the right thing, the wrong belief ceases to exist.
The taking away of difficulties is really the byproduct of my concerted action along new lines.
God does not serve me: I serve God.
God does not take anything from me.
God takes me, and only me.
Anything that is not me (my troubles, my difficulties) is left behind.