Addiction is, fundamentally, a disorder of worship. In our active addiction, we sought the “things” first. We chased the relief, the high, the approval, or the distraction. We put our recovery, our families, and our relationship with God at the bottom of the list, promising we’d get to them “later.” And as a result, our lives fell apart.
Recovery is the process of putting the world back in order.
The decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God isn’t just a spiritual sentiment; it is a practical reordering of our daily schedule. It means waking up and seeking His way before we check our phone, before we worry about the bank account, and before we try to control the people around us.
Our desire to recover must be the engine that drives this change. When we put the King first, the rest of the kingdom falls into place. The anxiety about “all these things” begins to fade because we trust that the One we are seeking is already taking care of them.
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