Grilled Cheese & Addiction

Obviously, I'm not average. So it wouldn't surprise you that sometimes (actually, often) I like to eat "non-breakfast" foods, for my breakfast of champions. 


This morning, it was a yummy grilled cheese. I was pretty excited about this cheesy wonder. This morning I sprang (after contemplating skipping my 8 am) out of bed, exciting about the thought of a grilled cheese--for breakfast! 


As I sat in my 70's orange & gold plaid chair, surfing the internet waves and enjoying my grilled cheese; I began contemplating life. Contemplating life, in a 70's plaid chair, enjoying a grilled cheese. I thought about what a sweet moment it was, because though it seems odd and maybe unknown to some of you, there was a time when moments like this were difficult. Were unconceivable. Because part of me is an addict. I have an issue.


In Matthew 9, there was a woman, who had an issue. 

 "Just then a woman who had hemorrhaged for twelve years slipped in from behind and lightly touched his robe. She was thinking to herself, "If I can just put a finger on his robe, I'll get well." Jesus turned—caught her at it. Then he reassured her: "Courage, daughter. You took a risk of faith, and now you're well." The woman was well from then on."
[vs. 20-22]


"A woman who had been bleeding for twelve years came up behind Jesus and barely touched his clothes. She had said to herself, "If I can just touch his clothes, I will get well.""
[vs. 20-21]


The Dictionary defines addiction as the following:
"the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, a giving over, surrender"




enslaved?


Most people begin an addiction to meet a need; perhaps a need for an escape. Like a narcotics user.


Or a need for a stress relief, a calming mechanism, like a smoker.


Or, if your addiction is of the eating type, it's a need for control.


But the scary thing about addiction is that even once the "need" has been resolved, since you have introduced that habit to your body, your body will still crave it.




Addictions come in all forms. And at the route of it all, addictions have to do with your heart. What are you fixated on? Just because you don't stick your veins or purge your food, that doesn't mean you don't have an addiction.

Think about King David, who had all he wanted and yet still craved Bathsheba, because there was an underlying issue.

What do you FIXATE on? Security? Finances? Relationships? Your Job? Your Kids? Your body? What about having something to Complain about?




The slogan for CHASE credit cards is "CHASE WHAT MATTERS" and that really stuck with me today. What are you CHASING?


Are you chasing or are you enslaved?

Where's your heart today?

"Why has your HEART carried you away?"

 [Job 15:12]