dependence stronger than all
It 's definitely true that drugs and alcohol impair the ability to judge, but there is a dependence even stronger, even more widespread than the others, which distorts the true values, and the tragic thing is that almost no one realizes it. The most common addiction is their own selfishness. As the junkie always searching for money to buy drugs, much like human nature research money to satisfy their vanity. Money may in fact be used to meet all sorts of pleasures, not only healthy but also selfish pleasures, perverse and destructive temperamentally.
A striking proof that success is represented by the INS are having more and more gambling halls, the sexyshop, the market for pornography and prostitution, not just girls who are brutally forced but also so-called VIP, just to make money, they sell to the highest bidder by advertising consumer products of all kinds and patterns of behavior rather questionable. Destructive
is not money itself, but the love and the frantic search for the man's money. It 's always been necessary to meet legitimate needs, but the money today is greatly desired, and increasingly used, not to serve others and to sound principles of life, but to trample; a society where more and more people seek power and license, to blackmail, to dominate , bribe, buy and sell even the flesh and the thoughts of his fellow men.
Dependence on money has become for many a chronic mental illness. It now seems certain that behind the dependency there is much more common than you imagine a time, and that the discoveries of how thought processes can be altered could be related with what we call the strongest dependency: the love money for selfish purposes and unhealthy, or the love of one's ego. In other words, the dependence on sin in general is the strongest dependencies, the most difficult to defeat.
Willpower man is already weak in itself, but human nature is able to weaken even further. The Psalmist was inspired to write that the human being separated from God "that is not vanity, that is superficial, empty, incomplete, useless and ephemeral (Psalm 39:5).
What does the Bible say about the strongest dependency
Human nature is our tendency to simply do what most istitntivo we are, what we think be fair, in simple terms that usually means "to safeguard their own interests, trying to get what makes us feel good doing less work as possible at the expense of others.
What most people do not know is that this attitude can be considered stronger than any addiction, as well as the most dangerous. It 's more dangerous because if you get to the end of his life that have never repented of their sins and having never changed this attitude, is not nothing but death, not only physical but also the "second death", the spiritual (Matthew 10:28, Romans 6:23, Hebrews 6:4-8, Revelation 2:11).
At the root of humanity's problems is just human nature itself: the lie of jealousy, hatred, deceit, violence, the lust for power at the expense of others, to the wars, just to name a few that make the idea of \u200b\u200bhow men can fall down. Human nature, selfish and the service itself, manifests itself through repeated actions that harm ourselves and others.
The Bible describes human nature in these words: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who will know?" (Jeremiah 17:9). God uses the term "heart" to describe the motivation, attitude, logic and emotions of the human mind, and as he himself says in this passage, the heart can not be cured or housed alone.
God knows well the limitations of human beings, as we read in Deuteronomy 5:29, "Oh they always such a heart to fear me and keep all my commandments, be happy for them and their children forever!" The human heart was not pure then and even now he can not be without God's help
The Apostle James, brother of Jesus Christ, he asked what were the motivations that drove men to evil, "Donde They come wars and quarrels among you? He is not from this: that from your pleasure that war in your members? You yearn for and have not: ye kill and covet and can not obtain: ye fight and contend, you have not, why not ask, ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss it 'your pleasures "(James 4:1-5) .
War is a product of human nature, not God The Bible tells us that Cain was the first man to commit murder, when he murdered his brother Abel (Genesis 4:8). Since then, human beings are simply exterminate each other.
Just as with other addictions, even the selfish part that resides in us, which has become part of our nature, creates a strong and dangerous addiction.
How does human nature?
Being extremely inclined towards the attainment of pleasure, human nature often causes us to sin, as happened for the first time in human history to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden: Eve sinned because they deceived and convinced by Satan, while Adam sinned knowing sin (Genesis 3:6, 2 Corinthians 11:3, 1 Timothy 2:14).
From that time all human beings continue to persevere in sin. "Therefore, since by means of one man sin entered the world, and through sin came death there, and so death passed upon all men because all sinned" (Romans 5:12). Human nature is innate in every human being, and is an extremely powerful force that manifests itself through our impulses and our instincts. "In fact, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).
sin can become a destructive force that is addictive, "the weakness of the flesh" that brings the human being to pay their members to impurity and wickedness "(Romans 6:19). For this reason, only those who act according to the impulses of their carnal nature dictates they are not able to either understand the things of God nor to serve. Often deceived by their nature and their own sins, mistakenly believe that their way to act is the only possible.
In fact, the Apostle Paul wrote, "And those who are after the flesh [human nature that only] have the heart to the things of the flesh, but those who are after the Spirit the things of the mind have spirit. Why is that to which the flesh is death, the soul, but that to which the spirit is the spirit, is life and peace, as that to which the meat has the mind is enmity against God, because it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be "(Romans 8:5-7).
Influences on human nature
Human nature is greatly influenced by Satan, the archenemy of God and of all humanity. Satan is not the ugly little man with the pitchfork, tail and horns, but it is the powerful "prince of the power of the air, the spirit that this work in the rebellious" (Ephesians 2:2). Satan comes as an angel of light, when in fact is a source of darkness and spiritual blindness. He works in the minds of leading figures from the world and dominates many areas and activities of human society (2 Corinthians 11:14).
Another powerful influence in our nature is the victim is the world around us, largely modeled on the style of Satan. He is "the god of the present age" (2 Corinthians 4:4), a being occult and powerful, the "deceiver of the whole world" (Revelation 12:9).
Jesus knew where human nature has its roots: "You are the offspring of the devil, who is your father, and want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks lies, he speaks of his own, he is a liar and the father of lies "(John 8:44).
The fundamental question that most of us are asking is: If God knows the evil inherent in human nature, because he still made sure that we had to live with?
As Creator, God is fundamentally responsible for all the events that happen to leave, good and bad, but it is not him to do bad things. E 'Satan to dominate human nature and to incite to evil, not God, and eventually will have to answer for his deception of humanity and human beings have taken prisoners of their chaos and their corruption (2 Corinthians 4:4, Revelation 20:1-3, Isaiah 14:12-15).
As mentioned before, the force of human will and human nature is weak weaken even more, and Jesus was well aware: "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit is very willing, but the flesh is weak "(Matthew 26:41).
If we get to the end to be part of His great family, God calls us to break the limits of human nature, accepting Christ in us through the power of the Holy Spirit, and thus to believe and have faith, as demonstrated by the divine works (James 2:17-26). God gives eternal life to those whose sins have been forgiven through Christ and with His help, went beyond the kind of sinners (John 3:16-17, Revelation 2:26).
last days God will transform the faithful, in their imperfect human essence, in perfect and immortal creatures, in the "sons of God" (1 Corinthians 15:42-53). Humans who repent and decide to free themselves from dependence caused by their very nature want to show Jesus Christ to take His own way of life, overcoming their innate selfishness through the power of the Spirit of God and being so ready to live according to His Word. The bodies of those who remain in the Way of the Lord all their lives for example, will be resurrected in a body composed of spiritual energy, into true children of God, the return of Christ on earth (Hebrews 2:10).
When human beings come to understand the evils inherent in its nature and severity of its effects, God gives him the opportunity to turn to Him and ask His help to endure the constant impulses caused by human nature that push to the sin. God is happy to give eternal life, because he knows that if men honor him in this earthly dimension of weakness, all the more reason to remain loyal even after the spirit of creatures will be covered with a character of immortality.
With God's help
The first thing we must do to overcome this addiction is to recognize and admit the fact that we can not save us from death, for which we have been precisely because of our own ego-centric nature (1 John 1:5-10).
However, it is not possible to fully transcend human nature until it is God the Father to draw us to Himself and give us His help (John 6:44). When we respond to the call of the Father, we are given the opportunity to repent of our sins, being baptized and receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38).
upon completion of the initial change, we must always seek the help that is offered above. God has given us the tools to resist sin and corruption of the world and Satan, the devil. If we continue to be faithful and endure to the end, we will live with God in His eternal kingdom that is coming (Mark 1:14-15).
The dependence on sin can be won!
The human being is easily influenced by anything that can create dependence, such as drugs and alcohol, just because of his rebellious nature and the weakness of the flesh. God gave us free will (Deuteronomy 30:19), but we must demonstrate that they are able to choose His way above ours, so that He might give us eternal life through death and resurrection of Jesus Christ ( Romans 5:10).
Acceptance of the blood that Christ shed to free us from sin helps us to purify our conscience from dead works of the past (Hebrews 9:14). Also, reading and studying the Word of God, filled with the Holy Spirit, helps to purify the mind from sin (Ephesians 5:26).
The dependence on sin can be defeat, indeed, must be defeated. The apostle Paul struggled to maintain complete control over their mind and body, to avoid being overwhelmed by his human nature and to make those mistakes which he condemned when he preached to others (1 Corinthians 9:27).
humanity is afflicted by this strong dependence, which is rooted in sin and its material rewards (Hebrews 11:25). Human nature, however, can be neutralized and freed from sin through the gift of the Spirit. "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit" (Romans 8:1).
Borrowing the Apostle Paul's exhortation: Let us arm ourselves, therefore, of great courage and fight against sin so that we do not wrap so readily as in the past! (Hebrews 4:15-16, Romans 8:28, 31, 37-39.
We can certainly eliminate the attraction of sin, addiction stronger than all, every day looking for the help of Almighty God through Jesus Christ.
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