Addiction hurts you and those around you. Addiction causes damage to personal relationships, health and job or school performance. It also causes depression, anxiety and anger in those you are close to. Sometimes, you can end your addiction and save your relationships with those you love. In some cases, you cannot. Living close to an addict is sometimes too hard and too painful for some people to recover from. However, there is one close relationship that will never abandon you. That is your relationship with God.

God is the only one capable of loving you unconditionally through addiction while walking through it with you. Any person you attempt to lean on completely during addiction will falter and need space from you. This isn’t because they don’t love you or have no compassion. It is because people are susceptible to hurt and damage, and if they do not protect themselves they will not come out all right when it is over. Instead of leaning on a person in your life who is so easily wounded, lean on God for unending provision.

There are Christian rehabilitation centers that can help and support you.

God is the embodiment of perfection. God is capable of meeting the needs of every person who ever lived. He has an infinite amount of grace and compassion and is immeasurably bigger than our problems. He calls us to reach out to him in times of fear and pain so that he can give us comfort. He is called the lover of our souls because he created us in love and wants us to find him through love. He sent his son Jesus to die on the cross for our imperfections so that we could be reunited with him. The sin and the hurt of the world was so great that it inhibited us to be connected to God. When Jesus gave his life, we had the ability to be one with God again, not by our own worthiness, but through the worthiness of Christ.