Addiction – Seeking Run Riot!

Addictions of all kinds are nothing more that self seeking run amok and out of control.  The addicted person is so determined to feel good they are willing to put every other aspect of their life at risk to appease their desire.  Someone once said the lives of at least nineteen other people improve the moment one alcoholic stops drinking!   But, as bad as divorce and addiction may be, there may be no higher form of self seeking than the frivolous lawsuits that characterize American life today.  The economic ramifications of litigation have devastated the health care industry.   Self seeking believes there should be a guaranteed good outcome to life itself and if something bad happens it is always somebody else’s fault.  Self seeking wants to be compensated regardless of the repercussions for others.

Self seeking flies in the face of everything Jesus taught and demonstrated in His life.  A Christian has no business indulging in self seeking, but the statistics for divorce, addiction and other symptoms of self seeking among Christians are comparable with statistics in secular society!  This fact demonstrates the basic carnality of the American church.