Jesus Lover of my Soul...

This started out as a comment on this note by Caleb Brewer: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1315553855#/note.php?note_id=62999691521
It ended up just being a note-sized response. lol

I do think that our problems can become highly addictive, mostly because of a feeling that if we let go of the controls, things will get worse. So even if we are crashing, at least we are in "control" of the crash.
That may just be my warped perspective, but it's true for me I know. I think that knowing that we have a problem, or knowing that things aren't going to turn out like we planned often feels safer than letting go, because in our simple human minds we hold to what we think we "KNOW". Even if it's bad. Better to crash while gripping the reins then to let go and give it over to God, who can stop the crash, who can stop the hurt if we let Him. Why is that? Because we "know" how we will stop the crash. It requires very little risk to calculate the best way to run yourself into a brick wall. At least you know what's going to happen, right? However, we percieve giving control to God as a great risk, and why? Because we don't know how He will alter or avoid the crash all together. We do know that He will do something different than our way, which is horrifying! Uncertainty about the direction of our future is most definately worse than knowing which wall we're about to clobber, right? Our problems are just that! But they become so very precious to us because even though we know we have them, even though we know we need to get rid of them, the risk of redemption, the risk of letting go, is percieved by us as being too great. At least we can confront them on our own terms. CRASH. BOOM.
If you think anywhere along the same lines as me, you've probably concluded that this is not the right way to deal with our addictive problems. If you feel like me, you know you should probably just let go. I can't guarentee there will be no pain, in fact, quite the opposite. Letting go hurts like hell at first. Like a leg cramp that actually feels better after you straighten it out, the fear of losing control is almost paralyzing at first. But I can say that you'll feel a good deal better about where you're headed once you do.