we are all like drug addicts!!!

Paul Mac was speaking today on some very interesting perspectives on sin and the way we function and live so below how we were meant to. We are slaves to our fallen nature, we have access to freedom but we don't embrace this fully because we all have addictions and attachments to things in our lives that take the place of God...idolatry in other words. We live life less fully than we were intended for too...we are sinners and we fall short of the glory God intended for us. The stuff on attachments and how we are all essentially addicts came from a book about a psychiatrist's journey from atheism to faith due to studying drug addicts and his finding that the only ones who got freedom, had had a spiritual experience.

Paul took it further and said that the way God has to deal with us is like how a rehabilitator has to deal with an addict...we are generally deceptive, we try and do disciplines and we can't, we say we love God then we do something that reflects the opposite, we are broken and a mess! 

I have been thinking is this perhaps why we don't see more breakthrough in the supernatural and in our ministries? God can't give us the fullness because in the same way you can't trust an addict, God can't really trust us with the full measure of the anointing until we get rid of the addictions to work, stress, money, TV, food, relationships, dysfuntional ways of thinking....we need to be holy and set apart from these things. The naff thing is also that these things like an addiction also become not as fun to us the more we do them...actually fullness of joy will come in His presence alone and not through these things. That's not to say we can't enjoy these things but if we are looking to them for relief or happiness a lot of the time then we need to reasess...

Ephesians 3 says we will be filled with the fullness of God [that would lead to breakthrough in the supernatural] when we know his love and that we are adopted sons, not slaves. God loves us even though we are needy, messed up addicts and we need to know his love a whole lot more. I think there are a lot of us that need to humbly see ourselves as needy before God, we really cannot attain anything unless he changes us. We need to taste Life and position ourselves to receive a double dose of his love and presence than we have been getting as a step towards more freedom and the fullness of God in us.