Why Addiction Can Ruin Your Life!

Addiction is something we all have struggled with. I don't care who you are and where you're from you have a struggle or have had a struggle. An addiction is the continued use of a mood altering substance or behaviour despite adverse dependency consequences. Pretty much an addiction is when you depend on something as a means of fulfilling a desire. Once you get addicted to something, your dependence on that behavior or substance can be out of control. People who are addicted don't even understand or realize the people around them they are hurting and effecting. Any addiction is dangerous when it isn't pleasing to God and when it's against what the bible teaches and tells us. There are many things people are addicted to openly such as drug abuse, alcoholism, smoking and so on. And things done in public can be so easy to judge and ridicule but what about those things done in private that no one can see? Things such as pornography and masturbation. All these things are bad and it doesn't matter if you openly struggle with something or privately struggle, the struggle is real and addiction are killing people daily. So all that gets me to this point.... How do we overcome addiction and how do we get our life back in order from this terrible problem? Well the first step would be to acknowledge your problem to yourself then to God. So many times we go to God and we aren't real about what we are dealing with like God doesn't know our problem. Secondly, have a willingness to change, God can't save you if your not willing to be saved because he isn't going to force you to do anything. Christ died so that we can have power over sin, but many don't choose this and they settle to struggle and live in defeat to sin. I heard a quote that someone said once and it was "some people need to be liberated from themselves" and that's so true because people are enslaved to sin and addiction and can't break free. Don't be a prisoner to your mind, free yourself and give your addiction to God it may take some time but don't give up. God hasn't given up on you and he is willing to save you from it but you have to be willing to give it to him first. I'm praying for you today if you're struggling with addiction. I'm challenging you to live better, because once you live better you will feel better.