The Lord is showing me more and more how I continue to replace one addiction with another and how easily it gets me off track and moves me further from the Lord. These addictions cause me to have feelings of hopelessness even when He is the giver of Hope. I lose my focus and become focus on the shiny things that draw my attention away from the one that I love more than life itself.
I believe that Genesis speaks to why these cravings and addictions occur. Genesis 3:16 "To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you shall bring forth children: Yet your desire shall be for your husbandk, and he shall rule over you."
So the Lord created us to desire Him and be in relationship with Him. But Eve, in her human flesh, decided she could do things better. So, instead of following the Lord's guidance to not eat from the tree of good and evil, she did. This small thing didn't just affect her, it altered the history of mankind.
Instead of putting her effort into what she was created for, she was sidetracked and her desire for God turned into an addiction for power, wisdom and meeting the needs of her flesh.
Lord, I ask that you would save me from this continuous cycle that I have been in for the last 30 years. I just want you!! I want to desire you above all things and crave you instead of the things of this World. Lord change me, make me and mold me. I am yours. Yet he gave me an addiction that I keep laying down to rest because the other addictions appeal to the flesh of soul. The addiction of song. I'm addicted to singing to Him, for Him from Him and ministering for Him. Lord keep me focused on your desire for me and help me keep my focus off of my fleshly desires.
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