When It's Hard · Temptation & Habits
Fighting Temptation & Addiction
For when you feel: tempted, addiction, can't stop, stronghold, fighting a habit
Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.
The MinuteHomily
The pull rarely announces itself. It arrives late, when you are tired and alone, whispering that you are uniquely broken and past helping. Scripture disarms that lie first. What you face is "common to man"; you are a human being inside the oldest fight there is, and grace has been meeting people in it for a very long time. Then Paul hands over two promises. God is faithful to limit the load, never "above that ye are able" with His strength counted in. And God builds exits, "a way to escape" made alongside the temptation itself. Sometimes the door looks like leaving the room or saying the prayer. Often, especially with addiction, it looks like people: a group, a counselor, a friend who knows. Taking the door is not weakness. It is the plan.
By the MinuteHomily editors
A prayer for this moment
Faithful God, in the moment of pull, open my eyes to the exit You built, and give me the legs to take it. Break this hold, day by day. Amen.
“You are not the sum of your weaknesses and failures.”
after St. John Paul II
Hymns for this moment
“Amazing Grace” · John Newton
a former slave-trader's freedom song
“Attende Domine” · chant
One small step
Tell one trustworthy person about the fight this week; strongholds hate witnesses.
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