Sermon Snippet
And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
The Bible: John
Do I call an addiction, "a little problem, a minor inconvenience on a par with measles?
Addiction can kill me. Perhaps fast, perhaps slowly, but either way the trip is hell. I can hang onto old ideas: "This time I'll do it,"
"It'll be different," "I'll stop for good." Old ideas - shun words like fat, drunk, obese, compulsive overeater, alcoholic, drug addict in favor of gentler, easier words.
Words do not change a meaning. I can call the sun and the moon by other words, but they are still what they are.
An addiction is a fact, like my height and coloring. In recognizing that truth, I am able to admit I am powerless over sin, give up my will — and become free.
For today: It is not a disgrace or a weakness to admit my powerlessness over sin. That is an idea that has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is only in Christ I can I do it. If it’s no longer I, but Christ who lives in me then and only then I can be free Galatians 2:20
Galatians 2:20
King James Version
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.