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Have you ever heard anyone say, "He's a hopeless drunk," or, "She doesn't have a hope of getting over her habit?" Have you ever felt hopeless? Most of us who struggle with addictions know what it is to feel hopeless. We know, first hand, what it's like to want to change a destructive habit and not be able to. We know what it feels like when everyone in the world, our friends, families, and even we ourselves, have given up. There is no more lonely, more isolated or more lost feeling than hopelessness. |  |
| It's often in the depth of hopelessness that many of us actually find what we've been missing so desperately. The road to recovery frequently begins in a place where our hope is gone, where we no longer have the strength to continue the behavior that brought us to such a dark place. |  |
Recovery can begin when we admit to ourselves that we are powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors and that our lives have become unmanageable. Recovery can begin when we surrender our failed efforts to control our lives to someone who has the power and the desire to save us from ourselves. |
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Many of us have discovered that there was someone who never gave up on us, someone who loves us no matter what we'd done, someone who has already forgiven us before we were willing or able to ask for that forgiveness, someone who wants our recovery even more than we do, someone who was actually with us even in the worst of it -- that someone is Jesus Christ. If you feel hopeless, then give up, admit you are powerless, and ask God through Jesus Christ to take over your life. He will led you to recovery if you'll only surrender yourself to Him. He's been waiting for that opportunity, He has the power you don't, He wants to save you -- let Him! |