What's your Addiction?

Everyone has one

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Everyone is addicted to something.

I am not saying everyone has a substance abuse problem. What I am saying is that everyone has their comfort “thing”. When the situation is too much to handle—when the circumstances are overwhelming—you run back to that “thing”.

Anything that you run to before you run into the arms of Jesus is a sin and an idol.

Maybe it is sin itself that you run to, believing the lies that it can numb the emotions and cure the merry-go-around effect spinning in your mind.

Maybe it is person, a confident you cling to. But maybe the problem is not the relationship with that person, but that your heart has placed them in the position that God belongs in. You rely on them too much and talk to them instead of God. Your relationship with God becomes Plan B, while you pour your heart out to someone other than your Creator, the Designer and Lover of your soul.

Maybe it is a place or an actual thing. You think that somehow another cup of coffee is all you need, when actually your heart desperately needs to rest in His presence and meditate on His Word. Or that if you could only confide in your precious journal, that the aching in your heart would somehow cease, when you really need to connect with God through prayer.

Or maybe it is yourself. You think that you can handle it, and that you know what’s best for yourself. That you don’t need help and if you could only have some space to figure everything out, your life would be under control.

Trust me when I say, I’ve been there.

But these quick fixes don’t actually fix anything at all.

Instead, they leave you craving the comfort only God can give.

When we put anything before Christ, we depend on a dry fountain to be our only source of water.

“There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made know through Jesus Christ.”

-Blaise Pascal

We will never find satisfaction in anyone or anything, except Christ Himself. There is no other name on Heaven or earth by which people are saved (Acts 4:12). Our Ultimate comfort can only come from the One who loves us the very most. He sees the situations we are facing and the temptations grabbing our attention.

He promises to never leave us.

“The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”

-Deuteronomy 31:8

We are not on this crazy rollercoaster of life by ourselves.

What if our “thing”, the thing we couldn’t live without, was Jesus Himself? What if we ran to Him before anything else?

We are worried about all the things we can’t control. But God is the Author of all time, nothing is out of His control.

He is the balm our aching hearts need. He is the only place to find peace. Real, perfect peace. That lasts.

What if we were addicted to Jesus?

Instead of running to anything else, we ran to Him. And He filled us as only He can.