We must give it away if we want to keep it. Jesus told us this in His great commission. Matthew 28:18-20, Mark 16:15-1,Luke 24:45-48, John 21:15-17. Jesus was telling us that we needed to give away what we recieved from Him not only for those who need Him, but in the process, we would become more like Him because we then would be giving away the only thing in this world that is important-the Love of God. Only by an act of God's love will any of us take the time to help another person. And when we help another person who has the same or similar problems that we have we are allowing that same love of God to heal us. This is the difference of being recovered or in a state of forever recovering. We are recovered when we are always in the process of helping other, we are recovering we are always in the process of only helping ourselves.

Being selfish has nothing to do with getting better. We are commanded by Jesus in the above scriptures to help others.
We do this by sponsoring others and helping them to apply the principles to their life. Only really coming to understand our position in CHRIST, is the key to overcoming our addictions is all about. We are saved so we do not do this for salvation, but to walk in daily victory. If we did not have someone show us, we would not be where we are today. We must continue to train others in the ways of CHRIST and serve each other out of love and compassion.

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