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Alan Lester | Gauteng, South Africa
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Unending Hope for the Exhausted Addict
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2008
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Last night I had the opportunity to watch the National Geographic documentary on heroin. One can only stare in dismay as you see such ruined and wasted lives. Men and women beginning in good homes, and little by little, being dragged away by their raging desires for their heroin. Before long, they are no longer welcome in their homes, facing ultimatums and rehabilitation programs. They know that what they are doing is absolute madness, yet the desire to feel the rush and to escape the pain of withdrawal is too overwhelming to put any steps in place that would show commitment to stop. Such sorrowful waste. Such sad failure to grasp the tragedy of a human being, made in the image of God, plummetting to the worship of mere feelings in the physical body. I couldn't watch that program without grief in my heart, longing to take those people and set their feet on the pathway to life.

Yet, as I watched, not only was I filled with sorrow for the wasted lives I saw, but I was filled with joy. Seeing the iron-fisted grip in which these addicts are caught was another reminder of their helplessness. They truly are caught in something far greater and stronger than their ability to escape. Yet, at their disposal is a rescue so great and so wonderful that they could be radically transformed forever. Even in that death trap, even in that misery, even in that sold-out slavery, there is hope for them. What a joy that the God of the Bible is still saving men and women today, even smashed up people like heroin addicts in a death-spiral.

It is with this certainty over the years of working with addicts, that I wrote the book Unending Hope for the Exhausted Addict. Not only am I personally convinced that God's saving intervention is the only hope for addicts, I know that God is actually in the business of doing that very thing in our day. I know people who were once enslaved to cruel masters, but who are now restored, bearing the aroma of Christ. This transformation comes through the simple hearing of the message of the Gospel. May God be pleased to use this book in this way in many lives.

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