Our addiction is our best attempt to survive. Certainly, it leads us down paths of sickness and death, but it is also a signal that we long to live. We just don’t know how, apart from this attempt to self-soothe. This is why when helping someone with any kind of addiction, instead of saying, “Just stop it. Repent of your sin,” we’d do better to say, “You’ve figured out how to stay alive. You’ve learned how to soothe your pain. But this way doesn’t go deep enough. Let’s try something else.”
