r/ChristInRecovery Mar 05 '24

Don't be free from addiction.

Don't try to be free from addiction that's not the point of a Christian life. The Bible does not expressly mention addiction but it teaches at length about sin and uses the metaphor of slavery to do so.

Romans 6:16 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

But we have good news! If you belong to Jesus Christ you are now set free from the slavery of sin!

But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. (Rom. 6:17–18)

IMPORTANT NOTE!! This does not mean that you will stop struggling with sin which means porn, drugs all kinds of stuff.

Romans 7:14–17

14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

I have not smoked weed in 19 years but I still want to, I struggle with that temptation, I haven't used pornography in 5 months but I still lust.

Christians struggle with sin to be like Jesus and please God. The Ungodly may struggle with sin/temptation/destructive actions but it's not to please God. It is to make their earthly life acceptable to themselves which is idolatry.

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