A Cancer Inside All of Us

Lately I have been struggling to find who I am. I have been wondering what is it that God wants me to do with my life. Over the last two months, I feel the need to purge from my life addictions I have been living with. These addictions keep me from reaching my full potential when it comes to God’s plan for my life. My addiction to lust is a given. I need to break free from that bondage but I also am addicted to numerous other equally destructive behaviors. These include self-pity, anger and confrontation. The Bible talks about these:

When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:19-21

Sound familiar? Sin is like a cancer, it may only start out in one area of your life but left alone, it spreads and affects other areas of your life. I am very guilty of this. My cancer may have started out as anger but then it spread to lust, sexual immorality, envy, greed and ambition, etc. Why do you think the Bible is so clear about giving things over to God and why do you think addiction is so destructive? It’s because when we hold onto our one little guilty pleasure it begins to grow and grow until before you know it, you find out that your life is ruined and you are at risk for losing everything else that is close to you, including a relationship with God.