Day 109 - Destructive Choices
In an effort to escape the pain, you may sometimes look for short-term solutions such as alcohol, overwork, drugs, or sex. These destructive choices have two elements in common:
- They prolong the actual grieving process.
- They break down the values and priorities that a person had embraced beforehand.
Dr. Robert Abarno says, “It’s called displacement. When you don’t face the issue and you don’t want to accept the answer ‘I am the problem,’ you may displace it by getting into alcohol or relationships or drugs or whatever. But that is temporary. It just doesn’t do the job.”
A quick fix lasts only a moment, but God is forever. Seek to please the Spirit, and you will move forward in healing.
“The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up” (Galatians 6:8-9).
Heavenly Father, I need to get off this road of destruction and onto the road of life. Lead me there. Amen.