This article was written by BCC Founder and Counselor Dr. Ron Allchin as part of our new series on addiction. In this series, our counselors are sharing how everyone can understand, overcome, and find freedom from addiction.
Living with an addict requires the wisdom of Solomon and the patience of Job!
Solomon, the wisest man of his time, had many experiences only to find them worthless and empty without God as his purpose for living. Job patiently went through devasting circumstances with family and friends and found God sufficient and trustworthy.
If you live with an addict, you understand your need for wisdom and patience!
Many in our secular community hold to a medical model and see the addict as a VICTIM of biological and physiological causes, a brain problem, heredity, trapped in a disease with no real cure and beyond their control. “Once an addict, always an addict” is the mantra.
This approach contradicts Scripture in 1Cor 6: 9-11, “and such were some of you.”
Others hold to a simplistic Christian model, believing the addict who chose that behavior needs to just make the choice to change back. “It is as easy as that!” Instantaneous change is
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