The cause of addictive behavior is a problem that drives people crazy. They are desperate to figure out what makes them do things they know are destroying their lives, keeps them prisoner and taints their lives with shame. They run to books, counselors and spend lonely hours in tears, and anger. We love to hate our addictions, we want them gone, but at the same time, at our disposal should we need them. Money, food, substances, electronic devices, or any number of other things that give us temporary fixes to our emotional imbalances, have become the central focus of our lives. If we aren't indulging in them we are fixated on how to stop indulging in them. Either way they have our undivided attention. Often they are softly playing in the background like a melody on a loop while we do other things, reminding us or calling us. The saddest part is that the relationships that might be the ticket start us on the road to healing are often the casualties of these addictions. We hide away from God and others to get what we have come to believe we need. If we were to shift our focus, seek God and others, we would find the grip of those habits decrease as we learned to trust. When our affection and trust moves our desires will follow. We have had such a short term, quick result, mentality for so long, we have forgotten what freedom and calm feels like. What it is to wait on God. He offers us the peace, love and joy we crave; but we have been to busy getting temporary relief, and seeking other answers to hear him. What he offers is so foreign it's hard for us to trust it. We have been lied to and shamed. We are left with anxiety and loneliness in our desperation. Our naivety and gullibility at Satan's quick fix solution has left us feeling that we can't trust out own minds. God offers us a peace so deep that it will permeate us down to the deepest level of our souls; Joy so real that it will flow over the banks of our lives and touch those around us, even in painful circumstances; He gives love that will never fail or leave us, beyond anything we could ever comprehend and that always acts on our behalf to give us to what is good.
He offers himself.
Its time to come of the Shadows; replace the lies and trust the truth. It's time to stop living two lives.
Let go, live honestly with God, yourself and others.
Seek the One who loves you and wants only good things for you.
Hope Wirta
Ephesians 3:17-19(NIV)
17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Romans 8:26-28 (NIV)
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose.
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