Addiction And The Whole Person
We are spiritual beings who have a soul and live in a body. God created us to work perfectly only when we are filled with His Spirit. We can’t think and choose correctly unless we have the life of God in us. On our own we live stressed and obsessed while trying to experience pleasure or fix something that has gone wrong. Over and over again our efforts end in disaster. Without God, we just don’t know how life works.
But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means. (1 Corinthians 2:14 NLT)
Many cars need a clear fluid (gasoline) in their engines in order to run well and transport people from place to place. While water (a clear fluid) is much cheaper than gasoline and more readily available, if we put it into the gas tank of our car, we will destroy the car’s engine and it will not perform as it should. All clear fluids do not have the same purpose.
At our core we are spiritual beings, so in order to live well we need to find a spiritual solution for what’s going on in our lives. Trying to fill ourselves up with work, sex, money or pleasure of any kind will only break us down. We need the Spirit of God who alone can fill us with life and give us true understanding of how life works.
Jesus replied, “I assure you no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. So, don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’ (John 3:5-7 NLT)
When we invite God into our lives, He makes us alive by the power of His Holy Spirit and fills us with life-giving truth. Only then will we begin to think and feel differently and out of that will flow new ways of choosing and behaving. Everything changes when we become spiritually alive.
Prayer: Loving God, on my own I’m ruining the beautiful life You have created me to live. I need a spiritual solution to solve my addiction issues. Come into my life and make me alive spiritually so that I may know freedom and wholeness through following Your ways. Amen
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