lets talk about addiction...

You might be sitting there all smug, and I hope you are.
You might not be addicted to anything...some people aren't!
Who knew?
Whereas some people are what you call addicted. You'll see them drunk at 9 o'clock...walking with sticks, with ghost faces, you'll see them on the bus, paralytic, you'll see them at taxi ranks, shouting...you will see them.
Some people are what you call, addictive personalties. which is like being an addict, only slightly up-market.
An addictive personality, basically gets addicted to like everything and anything because it repeats the same behaviour over and over again...what ever the thing.
Let's say Espresso coffee, or facebook, or suduko or football or shopping or boys or sex or flamin' table clothes...I don't know.
But you will be addicted to something...even if you don't know.
It's not a reserve of High Street.
Does it ever strike you that Swansea is such an 'addiction' afflicted town?
It does me.
For such a little place. It does have a grand reputation...
Is it that addicted people like to live in the same vicinity?
Or is it anything to do with Swansea having once been a Gospel city? That is that once, not so long ago...most people in Swansea went to a bible believing church.
Wow! Amazing! Truly....
Ok so the behaviour of addiction is repeated patterns of thought, and of action...but basically it's in your heart..it's what you love...It's what you love, love, love...it's who you run to, where you go to...what you do, do, do.
It's the wrath of God.
That's what I believe addiction is....
In RBT I learnt
1. Obedience is not as hard as you think.
2. Repentance is not a one time happening....
3. share the Gospel of Jesus...even to addicts...even to single mothers, even to boys....

Ezekiel 14: 4 Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When any of the Israelites set up idols in their hearts...'

Because you might think addiction starts in your head...or in your past...or in your hurt...but it doesn't, my friend, it starts in your heart, heart, heart.