If you look inside and listen to your heart you will know something is not right. You can feel that there is a separation from those who love you beginning to happen. You can feel loneliness starting to fill your heart as you distance yourself from God. But there is hope.
Proverbs3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Psalm 147:3
He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds.
When your heart starts to fill with the loneliness that addiction to drugs or alcohol brings and you start to feel like your heart is turning cold, your heart will try and lead you back to your faith in God. We just have to listen to the still, small voice inside.
Drugs and alcohol start to separate you from the people and things that are positive and good for you; not only from God and Church, but also family and friends that want to see you walk in the right path that God has laid out for you. As addiction starts to progress we tend to start to surround ourselves with people and places that support a lifestyle that is not conducive to survival as a Christian. Our friends start to change and our priorities are skewed by the addiction that has been allowed to take hold of our lives. You start to feel the loneliness as you distance yourself from God. In the beginning, you may feel the need to drink or use more drugs to compensate for the emptiness in your heart. This will fill the void for the time being but as soon as the affects of the drugs or alcohol wear off, the emptiness will return and you may feel even deeper despair and loneliness.
If you have found yourself here looking for help, you have heard the messages that God has sent your heart. Drugs and alcohol have failed to bring you the peace that you once had before addiction had a hold on your life. No matter how hard you try to drown out the loneliness and pain, that addiction has brought, the pain comes back even harder than before and depression starts to come back with a vengeance.
The only way that you will ever have true peace and happiness, is through recovery. Doing this alone, is very hard and the pitfalls are many. God is with you to help take some of the burden off of you. He will put people in your life to help you overcome this addiction to drugs or alcohol.
Always listen to your heart. Find help today and start back on the path to recovery. Call us now 1-800-513-5423
