THE THIEF

You are to define your relationship with things and not just with people. It is either you are in control or you are being controlled. It is either you have things or things have you. You are either possessing or being possessed. There is no common ground.You are to define your relationship with things and not just with people. It is either you are in control or you are being controlled. It is either you have things or things have you. You are either possessing or being possessed. There is no common ground.

The devil understand this logic so he seeks desperately to be in control of your life. He knows he has no power over you but he can overpower you with both the right and the wrong things. He does this through addition.

Addiction in itself is not a bad thing, it only becomes bad when you are addicted to the wrongs things. Some are addicted to work, prayer, winning etc which is very productive and some are addicted to drugs, photography, gambling etc which leads them nowhere and eventually destroys them. The word says:

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. -John 10:10

This is the devil's mandate, he wants you to waste away through addiction, he want to truncate your life through lust, he wants to steal your health and wellbeing and he wants you to remain a perpetual failure for the rest of your life.

How do you beat him? Through Christ; for He is life abundantly, so refuse to be controlled by situation, people or things that want to leave you in a lifetime imprisonment. Addiction can only control your thought and actions if and only if, you allow it. You have power over addiction.