1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.”
Darkness is code for depression. Darkness is sin, and life is no good when we walk in darkness.
Today, consider making a commitment to fighting darkness. One of the main reasons I quit was because I hated the darkness. Consider praying:
“Father, teach me to hate the darkness.”
Every time you pray any quitting prayer you are praying this prayer.
Every time you quote a quitting Bible verse you are asking to live in the light.
Every time you choose to fight habits you are turning from darkness, and turning on the Light.
Second, when I started to understand how my habit “always” put me into deep darkness, I was inspired to quit.
Back then, I would do all of these Christian things right, then plunge myself back into the darkness. My recurring cycle made it hard for me to avoid depression.
One day I realized, the thing that I thought was so great, so special, so exciting… was the thing that was keeping me dark, and depressed.
Many of you trust what I write. I always quote scripture, and stress doing things God’s way, and the Bible way. But when I say that life will be 5 times better when you quit, when I say you will be starting toward joy, many think: “Yeah, I have quit many times and I have only experienced a tiny bit of what he is writing about.
Now get ready for a shock. You are correct.
The problem is, when you are 90% committed to Christianity you only get about 5% of the joy, and when you are fiddling with sin, the joy disappears instantly.
Third, I wrote that I prayed:
“Father, help me to run from sin,” tens of thousands of times.
A few people tried that strategy, and joy began to flow into their lives.
I noted that I wrote RFS (Run from sin) thousands of times. A few people started doing that and they have formed a great base toward quitting.
Fourth, when tempted look up 1st John. It does not take more than a few verses in this great book to grind that temptation to a halt. When tempted again, start reading 1st John again. Fact, if you keep doing this until you can quote all of the key passages in the entire 5 chapters of 1st John, you will be 80% (or more) of the way to quitting.
Fifth, if your next month consists of constantly looking up 1st John, you will have one of the most joyful months of your life. That would be good.
Finally, what is life like when you are 100% committed to running from sin, and 100% committed to Christianity? Well, read how Paul’s life was like in the Bible. He had fullness of joy and in prison he was singing up a storm.
If we are committed like Paul, our joy will increase, and increase.
That would be good.
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