Facing the Giant of Addictionনমুনা

## How can I change? > ‘Be transformed (changed) by that [entire] renewal of your mind.’ Romans 12:2 AMPC Are you wrestling with a certain problem, thinking, ‘If I could just get beyond this, everything would be all right?’ Sorry to disappoint you, but when you’ve conquered this particular problem, God will reveal something else that needs to be dealt with. Relax – you’re always going to be working on something! Change doesn’t come through human effort without God, frustration, self-rejection, guilt, or the white-knuckling works of the flesh. No, change comes as a result of having your mind renewed daily by the Word of God. As you agree with God, believing that what He says is true, change automatically begins. You start to think differently, then talk differently, and finally act differently. Be patient with yourself: it’s a process that develops in stages. Would you think there was something wrong with a child who couldn’t walk perfectly the first few tries? No, you’re delighted each time they take another step. When they fall you pick them up, comfort them, clean up their grazes, encourage them to try again, and keep working with them. Do you think God does less for His children? God’s not angry with you because you haven’t ‘arrived’; He’s pleased that you’re pressing on, trying to stay on the path. It’s God’s job to ‘[cause (you) to...be governed by the Holy Spirit]’ (2 Corinthians 3:8 AMPC). If you could do it by yourself, you wouldn’t need God! So instead of driving yourself harder and harder, start leaning on God more and more! #### Prayer Point: Lord, You never promised to remove problems but You did promise to be there with me through them and bring me to a place of overcoming them – I rest in that today. I ask, Lord, for a fruitful life in You, that all the promises of the years gone by would visit me like old friends to remind me of what Your desire is for my life. Build me up, Lord, I pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.