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Fasting to Overcome Addiction
From brushing our teeth in a
sleepy haze to driving home at night weary with work, we repeat tasks
till we perform them without thinking. Living becomes a daily routine
of subconscious patterns. Study the patterns and you will discover
triggers for every subconscious action. Morning sleepiness triggers the
urge for a coffee. Stress triggers the urge for a cigarette. Feeling
bad triggers the urge for junk food. These little prods of addiction
keep us in the same routine day after day. Three coffees a day, becomes
50 thousand cups of coffee over a lifetime. Junk food eating becomes a
30-year lifestyle that equates to truckloads of candy bars.
Addiction is anything that
controls you, and, whether it’s food, pornography, coffee, TV or
heroin, the result is the same. Addiction destroys health and freedom.
The food industry has perfected addictive foods by adding lots of salt,
fats, processed sugar and artificial flavor enhancers. Once in the
blood, what was a delicious treat becomes tomorrow’s craving. These
daily cravings become powerful forces shaping our destiny through
dictating our thoughts, emotions and actions, and deteriorating our
health and discipline.
There was
rich man who asked Jesus, "What must I do to enter the Kingdom?" When he
was asked to sell all he had and give it to the poor; he turned away
because he valued money more than following Jesus. What have you exalted
above Jesus? What is it that you cannot give up? What addiction is
filling the space that only Christ can fill? You can sponsor 10
children, read the Bible daily, faithfully attend church, and yet be
groaning with spiritual emptiness because you are in bondage to hidden
addictions.We
live in an addictive society where it is socially acceptable to be
addicted to sugar, salt, caffeine, fried food, cookies, cakes and junk.
Yet, no matter how small the addiction, it has to go. Even a cookie
addiction can powerfully affect your life through guilt, pimples and
thirty pounds of excess weight. You may say it is just a few cookies but
if there is deterioration to your health, and you eat them without
control, your cookie addiction needs to end.
As
a heavy drug user, the high was never long enough or high enough. Every
time I got high, it was a tease. I always wanted more. Drugs were
supposed to make me happy but I was miserable. I never had what I
wanted. Leaving you always wanting is the sneaky side of addiction. An
addiction makes you feel good for a time, but, behind your back, it is
stealing your self-control and making you its slave through the desire
for more. ...for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. (2 Pet 2:18,19)
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