Choosing the Path of Recovery: Accountability and Faith

In my addiction, it didn't feel like that. It felt like I was sliding down a hill. In recovery, God has helped me to see, no, at every single step of the way, I can stop. At every single step of the way, I can choose the healthy path.

And, and as I'm listening to you say that, I know as I was coming up, and one of the things that, you know, that I would— that I tell young men, and when I tell my story, similar to what What you're saying is that you're right, the temptation gonna always be there. We're tempted daily, you know what I'm saying? That's why the Bible say that we, uh, you know, we keep the flesh down daily because it can always rise back up. That way, one thing that I was listening to you say too, uh, in the earlier part, and I think that this is very vital, is that to take accountability for your own actions instead of blaming everybody else and blaming this person for this and this person for that. We have to take accountability. Something that, uh, if you even go back to the beginning of Genesis in chapter 3, uh, Adam didn't take— he didn't even take accountability for his own action because he blamed the woman. He said that it was the woman who gave me— but you have to take accountability for your own action, man. And so that's one thing that I believe that you have done. That's one thing that I know that I have done. And it's all, like you say, come through Christ, you know, through Christ, through the word that's living in us, man, that you You know, we're not, we're not so quickly persuaded, you know what I'm saying, to things that we used to be, man. So