This is probably the chapter you were looking for when you started this study. Thank you for your patience and perseverance in getting to this point. The foundation you’ve laid will help to ensure that your current efforts towards sobriety do not meet the same fate as previous, well-intended efforts.
You’ve probably known that living an enjoyable sober life required more than insight and remorse. But you needed to see more clearly how your AoD of choice was being asked to fulfill a bigger role than it ever could and how this dysfunctional relationship with substances developed. You also needed to allow God and others to play the vital role in change that God desires for you.
Now you’ve done those things; which means the practical advisements below have the opportunity to be incorporated into a healthy lifestyle. No longer are these plans your “savior.” No longer are you merely mustering will power. No longer are you striving to make yourself acceptable to God and others by a longer streak of days “being good.”
You are now merely seeking to be a good steward of the life God gave you. We will consider how to be a good steward of your life after a struggle with addiction in five sections:
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