Activity – Durr

Durr posted an update in the group Community 1 years, 12 months ago

Spiritual Ideas
Over the course of one month, gambling always increases our pain. With addiction, instead of 5 bad days per month we have 19. Or instead of 7 bad days we have 24.
For example: Your boss hates you and once again today, he rips you to shreds. You now have a choice of falling or fighting. The problem with falling is that falling is what causes the 19 or 24 bad days per month. While fighting is what causes you to have more and more good days per month.
Fighting
We fight temptation by digging into the Word and by prayer. In this case we pray: “Father, please show me why I keep having this problem.” Then we study some more and pray some more. At some point God will give you some direction. The direction may be to show you what it is like to be a boss with a bunch of people who really don’t really want to be there. Who cause him/her trouble left and right. The direction might be to memorize this verse: “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord.”
So, in this situation, you fight, and make these changes and your boss still treats you like dirt. But now you understand 2 things better. #1: What life is like from the other persons perspective. How have you treated them? As a Christian, how should you treat them?
But, more importantly, you have decided that you don’t want to solve your problem in a sinful way that causes you to have 19 or 24 bad days per month. You are willing to work on solving the problem, fighting the way Christ wants you to fight, and allowing today to be a little bit bad, but also a massive learning experience because you spent extra time fighting addiction instead of falling.
Flip the switch today. It is not uncommon for a person who goes to war with sin to have 19 or 24 good days per month.
Lastly, falling kills your pain like heroin kills a heroin addicts pain. It dulls it for a few hours and then increases it for a few weeks, months, or years.
Instead, fight, attack, dig into Scripture, get your life back, and start increasing your number of good days each month.
Thanks to STA
- jodi71 replied 1 years, 10 months ago
  
  Do you have any advice for the scriptures I should study? My brain is so warped from gambling I literally used to find verses from the Bible and twist it in my head telling myself God wanted me to gamble and I’d win the big one. So messed up I am! Anyways if you could recommend any for me to study I’d appreciate it.