As it is, we are all born of original sin. This means ALL of us without exception.
So truly... You are not alone!
In addiction it manifest as a compulsion to sin. We are compelled to sin. We can’t drink or use enough whether it be drugs, food, people or destructive behaviors. Speaking with a friend the other day, he explained how when he was in the depths of his addiction, he wanted to write a book about compulsion. This is the sin nature that we all have been born into through the fall of the first man.. Adam.
As a result, we are ALL under the jurisdiction of sin or satin until…
Think about this… What else would explain our unrelenting desire for sin ( self will run riot ). It certainly never really felt like who we really were, a perfect child of the living God. Could we actually believe that we have been brought here just to destroy ourself? We think not! As they say in addiction " We did this to ourselves" with a whole lot of help from Adam.
The proof that our "man made" sin nature is true, is that after so many years or decades of doing things our way ( literally killing ourselves anonymously ) our help comes immediately AFTER we surrender our will back to Christ. With a sincere heartfelt acknowledgement of our mistakes ("sins"), We ask our God for forgiveness and the life giving power of salvation returns to save us. The moment this occurs, the solution that has evaded us for soooooo many years arrives.
Some of us seem to have problems with that "SAVED" word... Think about it... SAVED... Saved from what?Saved from that next DUI, Hep C, Car Crash, Divorce, Felony, Domestic Abuse... need I go on?
WOW!
Think about it. Is this not exactly what has happened to us in recovery?
Staying on track seems to just be a matter of surrendering to God on a daily basis and allowing God to take over again and again just as we did the first time.
The really incredible part of this story is that after so many years of denying Christ in our lives as soon as we Ask with no other motive than to be loved, we receive. Ask and you shall receive .. For us in addiction it should read … ask honestly and you shall receive.
In recovery we get what we need instead of what we want… because we are now under his perfect law of justice.
Amen.
