The Drug Addict

     A few days ago, I was meditating about what the Pastor said during the last weeks of 2012. He was talking about Perseverance. This week I was thinking about his words and also about drug addicts. These people, many times, persevere more than we do. Let me explain how. When a drug addict wants their drug, they are willing to do anything to get it. They don't let anything or anyone stop them from what they want. If they have to displease their family, sell all they have, beg for money, travel miles, they will do it without thinking twice. This perseverance applies to every area of our lives. Many times after one prayer we give up. Many times we say we want something from God, but when things get hard we put excuses and give up. Wow, imagine how our lives would be if we had this perseverance with God? Imagine if we treated the Holy Spirit like our drug? If we were willing to do go against anything and anyone to have Him inside of us? Our lives would be transformed. Many people say they want their family transformed, they want a job, they want to be healed, they want to find the right person to marry, they want the Holy Spirit, but in reality, they don't. Why? Because our actions don't show it. We say we want something but were not willing to persevere. Before anything else, we need God flowing inside of us. Even if you have the perfect family, the love of your life, a wonderful career, if you do not have God, you have nothing. You will never be satisfied. You will always feel that something is missing.It all breaks down to this verse:

John 6.27

"Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal.”