The Mystery

God’s grace and mercy are revealed through Jesus Christ, God’s beloved Son.  It is a shame that many people will never know the truth that could ultimately set them free.  On the other hand, there are many that have heard the truth but have completely rebelled against it trading the truth for a lie; they worship the created things instead of the Creator of all things who is to be ever praised, amen!!  Many people have hardened their hearts to the truth.  

Think of the people that have been taken away early in life because of their drug of choice, trying to escape reality, seeking a way to cope with life if only they would have gotten a hold of the truth and got it from their head to their heart, that truth would have set them free.  Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life, read John 14:6, only in Him can we be complete.  The thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy but Jesus came that we might have life and have it more abundantly.  What people hope to gain from all their addictions is to escape life and all of its problems and party so they will feel good, but it is only a temporary escape which only turns out in the end to be misery and pain, and far too many times, death.  

With Jesus you can have a real party plus you can have everlasting life, peace, love and joy.  I don’t say this lightly and I pray quite often for those that are in addiction because I have been there, being what I considered a total freak for the enemy who stands against all that is good; he is the father of all lies and the great deceiver.  For many years I bowed at his feet and did just what he wanted me to do - drugs, alcohol, partying, living in my car for a short period of time, riding chopper motorcycles, a freak that is what I considered myself.  I was also into sexual immorality, porn, bitterness and hatred and all the other things that go along with this kind of lifestyle, like a terrible mouth and a terrible temper which left me only more miserable.  Thinking back I remember one time I rolled my van over on its side while driving; I also went down twice while riding my chopper motorcycles.  At the time my motorcycles and partying were my lifestyle and consumed me, but there were always the times when I had to come down off any high I was on and then reality would strike and I couldn’t wait for my next chance to get high on something, while at times I would even tell myself I will never do it again.  These additions were like idols and I bowed at their feet daily; that is what these things become in people’s lives, gods or idols that we call additions!!

Some people are in programs trying to escape, by what they call their higher power, whatever that might be.  The difference between me and an alcoholic was I didn’t go to the meetings; I went right to the one that could and did deliver me.  I call him the Son of God, the righteous holy one, Jesus Christ the only one that can set you free.  The Word says when the Son sets you free you are free indeed.  There are people that go to meetings for years where they tell them once they are an addict they will always be an addict and without a relationship with the Lord that may be true, but when you choose to truly repent and turn from your sins and ask the Lord to forgive you and be your Lord and Savior and you are born again, you are set free, and when the Son of God sets you free you are free indeed!!

Check out 1 Corinthians 6:8-11, “No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren! Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”

Paul said that is what some of you were-- but you were washed, you were made holy, you were made right in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God!!  

Now read 2 Corinthians 5:17-21, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”            

If you want to be set free and not live in bondage, try Jesus, taste and see that He is good and that He is able to set you completely free, praise the Lord!!  You won’t have to count the days or weeks or months or years that you have been set free, the Lord can take the desires of the drug of your choice from you and you will be free indeed!!

Enough said I hope this has been a help and an encouragement to you and may you have a super day!!  May the good Lord bless you and yours and don’t forget to thank and praise the Lord, for He is worthy!!