Romans 7:15

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

Romans 7:15

Paul speaking on the laws of God and man does a pretty good job of describing the inner torment of addiction and alcoholism. We do not act as we want, we act as we do not want, drawn to use and abuse through our weakness, through our sin.

We drink or use drugs, knowing in our hearts and minds that how we live does not please God, yet we feel so strongly pulled towards sin by the evils of the flesh.

God's laws are absolute and they are just, and the answer to recovery (as to all things in life) can be found within God's love and compassion towards us, weak as sinful as we are. We are weak, yet God is infinitely strong, and though we prove over and over again that we cannot overcome our weaknesses alone, God can, and He can do it easily.

So the answer to addiction is to live by the laws of God, and to use His grace and power as a better substitute to our own faulty weakness and judgment. God's laws are absolute, and if we can live by them we save ourselves from so much needless pain.

We are sinners all, and we are weak. Addiction and alcoholism are evils against the laws of God. Follow the laws of God and walk the path He has chosen and find yourself delivered away from your weakness towards His strength.

It's not easy to do, but it is the way, it is the Word.

Through God's grace, you can get better.