Runaway Train

Do you have something in your life, an "It" that controls you and keeps you from being the best you can be...something that keeps you from being who God made you to be? You may find yourself not only riding on a runaway train but also running faster to get to "it" quicker. You are loosing your balance and in danger of falling. You cannot get yourself to sit down and stop running to get to "it."

This is a slippery slope. It is called addiction, and it wears many costumes. All of them are dangerous. Some are not considered as bad as others. Addiction to alcohol or narcotics are thought to be worst. The truth is that any kind of addiction is still addiction. The sad part about it is that addiction changes who you are. For someone with an addictive personality the call is very strong. The sad thing is that once an addiction is overcome it is often replaced by a new one.

Here is a for instance. A woman I know had gotton control of her addiction of over eating. She had lost a lot of weight, and for the first time in her adult life she was pretty close to a normal size. Some nights she would be like a cat on a hot tin roof just needing something to make herself feel better. She was so uncomfortable that being thin was not enough. One day she had an idea that she liked. She reasoned that if she used diet ginger ale and whiskey she might be able to fill the need with a drink every night. You can guess what it worked out to be. Yes, after a while one drink no longer enought.  Soon she was drinking more and more alcohol. The surprising thing was that she had never been a person who drank to excess in the past. The addiction to alcohol had replaced the eating addiction that she had.

Another woman with a spending addiction found herself in a position where she did not have money to spend. The need for her addiction for satisfaction that had been filled by shopping was replaced with an addiction for relationships. There was never enough for each of these women. They were on a runaway train, and could never get enough of their personal "it." The women are trapped on a Runaway Train.

Consider the following...

“IT”

It takes you farther

than you want to go

Keeps you longer

than you want to stay

And costs you more

than you ever

wanted to pay.

Why do people turn to addictions? We are created with an emptiness that is a God shaped hole that only God can fill. Unfortunately for addicted people they seem to need a warm fuzzy that they can see and feel. Even more unfortunate is the reality that they do not have a close enough relationship with the God who could be a warm fuzzy for them. So they turn to their personal "it" which does not satisfy them as they fall into IT deeper and deeper. It is even more devious and lamentable when an addicted person does have a relationship with God. The only hope is to give IT to God.

 

If you have an IT that you are hoping you can be able to give to God and you would like a partener who has her own IT, let's partner up in the effort. You can contact me at corinnemustafa@comcast.net

 

God bless