Underneath any addiction (and our foundational need for approval) is a larger question. It’s this: What problem is occurring in my life that I need to mask the pain or emptiness with an addiction? See, the drugs or the alcohol or the sex or the porn or the people or the social media or the retail therapy is only a symptom. The cause is something else. The cause lies under the surface. The root cause of most addictions is pain. The cause is sin.
