To understand the areas of your life that affect drug use, let’s start by saying that addiction is physical, mental, spiritual, progressive, and deadly.
The physical aspect is compulsive drug use: the inability to stop using once we have started. The mental aspect is the obsession or overwhelming desire to consume even though we are destroying our lives. The spiritual part is our total egocentricity, it is the desire to be constantly attracting attention. Egocentricity and omnipotence are very attached feelings in a person in active consumption. It is progressive because it begins by consuming in small doses and the increase in consumption is gradual and progressive. In the mortal aspect there are three places where an addict ends up in active consumption: jail, hospital or death. Many addicts accept their illness, seek help, and choose recovery.
The word says: if we admit weakness we find strength. We find strength with Jesus, he is the restorer of our soul. Jesus died on the cross for our sins so that we will be free from all disease. God will never abandon us. All our burdens we deliver to him.
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in prosecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12: 9-10 (KJV)
Drug use affects the personal, family, social and spiritual area.
Personal area
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Proverbs 4:23 (KJV)
The heart and the mind are two territories strongly attacked by addiction. The heart is the most valuable thing we have and the hardest thing for us to heal. A wounded heart lacks forgiveness. A person who was hurt from childhood or experienced traumatic situations is very likely to be a drug user.
A person who does drugs is hurt, feels rejection, anguish, depression, loneliness and abandonment. It leads him/her to continue destroying himself, the pain is so great that he/she feels that he/she is a prisoner of addiction, of consumption and all he/she wants is to continue doing drugs.
Obsession and compulsion lead him/her to continue drinking and using. It is very difficult to stop using and see the damage it is causing in your life, you have a great feeling of guilt and this does not allow you to ask for help.
Family area
The ties are the most affected in the family bond. In family relationships, the first thing that breaks is communication. It is an issue that opens a trigger because in this case the family member also happens to play an important role, since many times without knowing they become a prisoner of the addict and live the emotions that the addict experiences, they become emotional codependent. Manipulation, pacts, secrets, many times make the addict continue to benefit from these situations and their consumption worsens. The family member believes that he is helping him, but he is being manipulated by the addict, this is a very particular mechanism that the addict uses to have control of the situation. In the case that his claims and requests are ignored, he also uses it to sue and control and continue consuming. What he unconsciously seeks is to continue consuming, he is self-destructing, and he manages to enter into a rebellion, with himself and the authorities. Everything that is law and authority is a problem, transgression becomes a lifestyle.
Social area
Lack of humility is very common in addicts: they want to be God. The self-centeredness and omnipotence that the addict lives increasingly distance him from society, they want to be in control of everything. As a consequence of that, problems, situations and
he begins to live in the marginality and stops being a humble person. Unforgiveness, resentment, resentment, anger, fear are a lifestyle and live in fear and frustration.
Spiritual Area
The spiritual part is our total egocentricity. Willpower and good intentions are not enough. I need the power and will of God.
And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. Luke 18:27 (KJV)
The addict needs God’s help in his life. He/she needs to change, needs to live free, in peace, drugs are not the freedom of the soul of the spirit and get out of that depression in which he/she finds himself.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7 (KJV)
You need to repent and ask for help. Jesus has the power to help you.
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