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Early this morning, as I was sitting at my computer, a scenario was running through my head, a fantasy if you will, and my mind came up with the statement that you cannot love someone else while you’re addicted. In the scenario in my brain, the addiction in question was alcohol and/or drugs, but as I thought about the statement, I realized that it also applies when we’re addicted to things like anger, bitterness, hurt, rejection, pain, depression, etc. Many people are addicted to the feelings of hurt or rejection they experienced in childhood or earlier in their adult lives. Despite Christ’s healing touch, they continue to dwell on their hurt and pain, or their sadness, based upon what occurred to them before.

We all know people like that; those who talk incessantly about their hardships earlier in life. I’m not talking about people who bring up the topic on occasion, but rather about those who bring up their hurt each and every time we speak to them. It’s all they talk about. Some try to disguise it by saying it’s what God delivered them from, but if they’re delivered, why are they still obsessing about it? A testimony need only be told once, not every time you see someone. Believe you me, after about the second time you’ve talked to them, they know, and they’re ready to move on to other topics of conversation.

These are also the “one-up” folks. You know the type; you mention something that’s happened in your life, and they “one-up” you, or tell something that’s worse than your experience, as if they somehow win a prize because they’ve experienced something worse than you have. It’s really just a smoke-screen that tries to hide how prideful, arrogant and self-centered they are, as most addicts suffer those failings. It’s just another way for them to keep the conversation centered on them. They truly have no idea, or if they do, they couldn’t possibly care less, that people look down on them for their addiction and their ego.

We need to pray for these people, pray that God will show them their addiction, and pray that they will seek healing. Unless and until they're ready to be delivered, we should never pray for their deliverance--demons and other influences have to run at the name of Jesus, and we declare their deliverance, if they're not ready for it, then their hearts are swept clean, as Jesus described to us, and the addiction walks about in the dry places, then decides to return home and takes 7 more with him, who are worse than he is, and that person is worse off after our prayer of deliverance than before. I'm sure you've seen this phenomena in your own lives. And it's our responsibility because we prayed for something that person wasn't ready to receive.

But, we also need to get down on our knees and ask for forgiveness for ourselves, because oft times we treat these people differently. We avoid them or ignore them. That's not the way Christ directed us to behave, and by avoiding or ignoring these people, we're turning our backs on the "least of these", and we will have to answer for that. We will suffer here in this life when we reap the avoidance we've sown, but we will also have to stand before Christ on Judgment Day and answer for our actions. Our words, too, if we've talked about these people with others, gossiping about them behind their backs.

May God richly bless you as walk in His paths and may His Word become a hunger in your heart, soul and mind.

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