All addicts know the insidious lies of satan/addiction “this one time won’t hurt”, “just one”, “no one will know”, “I deserve”, etc.
I was watching Joyce Meyers this week and she was talking about Luke 4:4-6 which got me to reading, meditating and chewing it over. The part that struck me was Luke 4:5-13. In verse 5 satan takes Jesus up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and promised to give him authority over it all if he would just worship him. Boy this is the set up that gets the addict every time. Those lies come, satan has been using this same lie since the Garden of Eden. For addicts it is usually in the form of MORE and BETTER knowledge of some sort. If you use this one more time you will have more and better fun, more and better money, more and better sex, more and better freedom, etc. Satan says, if you will just partake in your drug of choice one more time I will give you all of this. Of course we all know that the “all of this” is a big fat lie. Behind the mirage are chains, bondage, destruction, shame, guilt, remorse, pain, unrelenting emotional and physical pain.
What lie does satan attack you with? What is that repetitive thought that he gets you back to the races with every time? Fight back! You are not a victim to satan’s plan. Jesus overcame death for you and I to be free in Him. What if the next time you thought “this time won’t hurt” you said out loud, “yes it will hurt”. What if you told “just one”, “I have never had just one”. Fight back, you know the truth start speaking back. When you start fighting back with truth it brings new responsibility and accountability.
This is the place where most of us need help. No one wants to ask for help. Addiction and satan love isolation but the truth is we can’t do this battle on our own. If we knew how to win on our own we would have already done that! We have to have help. Have you ever noticed that Jesus sent the disciples out in two’s. We need to tell another human the lie that satan is hitting with so they can give us words to fight back. If we could think of them on our own we would have already done that. In the beginning having someone speak truth over us begins to strengthen us, then we are able to begin to fight back for ourselves.
Just know you aren’t alone. You aren’t the only one that has ever been attacked. You aren’t the only one, this has been satan’s plan since the beginning. He is doing to you what he did to Jesus. Fight back, you are not a victim to satan’s plans for you. Reach out ask for help. I know you don’t want to. I know you keep redoubling your efforts to control your addiction. If that worked you would not be struggling. You don’t have to continue to fight this battle alone…..
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Interesting subject. The marajuana users in my group like to talk about this.
One of the biggest problems my group has isn’t convincing folks that they have a problem. It’s convincing them to address the biggest one first and then deal with the other stuff. Nobody seems to want to do that. Everyone wants a reason or an excuse. They want to worry about the big bruise on their arm when there leg is cut off and they are bleeding out.
One of the biggest problems my group has isn’t convincing folks that they have a problem. It’s convincing them to address the biggest one first and then deal with the other stuff. Nobody seems to want to do that. Everyone wants a reason or an excuse. They want to worry about the big bruise on their arm when there leg is cut off and they are bleeding out.