Topic: Dealing With Life Issues Or Letting Them Slide

Sometimes not doing anything can be easier than trying to fix what is broken. Coasting along on the highway toward our destruction can be easier than turning right or left and driving on a rough and uncertain side road. Life issues can have such a gripping and ripping effect upon us dealing with an issue is often as difficult or more difficult than living with the issue. Telling a person they cannot drink again after years of living in a culture of beer and booze drinkers…at a hangout where everyone knows them, sympathizes with them, laughs with them, and seems to be their friend…seems to be a ripping away of what gives people of this persuasion the only substance they have in life. In our disdain of things sinful, Christians must remember as ugly as sin is the life of righteousness following repentance and acceptance of Christ can be excruciatingly painful for a person with a life issue. Life issues can grip us and rip us making us slaves. Life issues are able to make us slaves because we think life issues have a payoff. The drug induced high experienced when on drugs is a physiological and sometimes mental high. When a person is on a drug induced high they are totally removed from the pain, problems, stresses, strains, grief, and worry of life crashing upon them when the high is gone. For a few minutes, the binge eater forgets all about the after affects of eating too much. For a few minutes, the gambler, the over-spender, and the person addicted to destructive behaviors is high above the forthcoming pain surely to follow. However, when we play with fire we get burned. The person enslaved by issues must come to a point in their life where they must make a decision whether to try and deal with the issue or just keep on being a slave. Some of us have major issues that can, have, or will enslave us. Others of us have minor issues. A few lucky people have no real issues. For those people who live in slavery to issues, there is hope. If you live in slavery to issues, remember God wants you free. If you live in slavery to issues, God wants you totally removed, renewed, and regenerated in heart, mind, body, soul, and spirit. When you decide you want to be free, God is with you and will not forsake you if you do not forsake Him.

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