The Easy Way Out

   This article is born through the frustration of investing many hours over many months helping someone, hoping and praying for growth but seeing no progress because the person is always looking for the easy way out. Addiction is cunning, baffling and powerful. AA groups point this fact out and accept it. This author believes it is a spiritual truth; Satan is behind, in and throughout addiction, which is why it is SO cunning, baffling and powerful. 

   Careers, marriages, relationships and lives are shipwrecked and destroyed every day by sexual addiction. I worked with a man for over 15 years that invented more ways than I could count so he would stay in an addiction that ended his marriage, his career and caused all of his children to forbid his visits. He was arrested many times for public exposure, so many times that the local police chief would call me when they knew he was in a city park bathroom. If I caught him there it would deter him longer than being arrested and put in jail. I walked with him to his old age and his grave but he was never able to stop his self destructive behavior, even though he was “born again,” lips confessing Jesus as Lord. I knew this man for over 30 years. I don’t doubt his belief in Jesus. He was stuck in a lifetime of acting out the same behaviors that were done to him as a child by a hired man. He just could never get to the place of doing the hard work of being transformed by the r ...

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