Never Satisfied

Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burns as the fire. It shall devour the briers and thorns, and kindle in the thickets of the forest.

When is enough....enough?
With addiction, that would be .....never!"
There is never enough.
It really is like  fire. The more you feed it, the larger it grows, the more it requires to stay alive.
Start with weed......not enough.
Need something with a little more punch.
Need something with a little more push to it.
Here in is the lie.
The addiction offers the empty promise to make everything better.
To make you into the person you have never been because of your fears and character defects.
It promises to alter the painful reality you are currently living in....
So we buy into those empty promises......
And we start the fire with a spark, all the while disregarding what we know to be truth.
Truth that says....this is not going to end good.
Truth that warns us to not start the journey down this road.
But we don't listen, because we have bought an empty promise.

In fact, the addiction turns everything we believed in upside down and inside out.
The Bible puts it like this:
Isaiah 5:20
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil.
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness.
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
In other words...the addiction has us living in a moral vacuum where we participate in deeds and behaviors that, in the past absent of our D.O.C, we never would have done.
Were we raised to lie, steal, cheat, and hurt the ones who love us?
I don't think so.
This is all part of that empty promise addiction makes to us.
We become so ingrained in the culture and lifestyle that come with our addiction, that when we see someone who has a normal life.....getting up every morning going to work.......pays their bills.........goes out for supper with friends....we think those folks to be strange. To be weird. To be totally unaware of what is really going on. Yet it is our life that is broken. Why? Because enough is never enough when it comes to addiction.
The more we spiral out of control, the more we use.
The more we use, the more we spiral out of control.
Along the way, we destroy everything that use to be dear to us.
Why do we do this?
Because enough is never enough when it comes to addiction.
But there is hope.
Not empty hope but hope that lies with an individual.
Read the invitation He has given to everyone who is out there still buying those empty promises.

Matthew 28:28
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Leave your old ways....
Come to Jesus.....
And He will give you rest.
Physical rest.....
Emotional and mental rest.....
Spiritual rest......
Sounds like a deal to me..how about you?

God on you...
mb