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I know that you don’t want me to talk to you about Jesus. But I really feel He and the Holy Spirit are essential for change in our lives. After this latest relapse and the knowledge that if you mess up one more time you will have to move to a different treatment facility I feel it is essential that you give your life over to Jesus.

First let me reexplain the gospel. Christianity is not about rules of what to do and what not to do. It is about Jesus doing all of those things perfectly for us and giving us the “credit” for His perfect life and taking the punishment of all of the bad things we have done on himself at the cross.

When we believe that He has done this for us - not just an intellectual knowledge but a true heart knowledge - he comes to live in us and sends his Holy Spirit to live and work in our lives.

There is no way we can change our bad habits or addictions in our own strength. It is only once the Holy Spirit lives in us that we can win the battle against our sin.

The Holy Spirit changes us and our hearts so that we want to do the right things to thank Jesus for what he did for us on the cross. Not to earn His love.

And when we are tempted to do something we know we should not do we can ask the Holy Spirit to give us the strength to resist and to open our eyes to the lies we are telling ourselves about how the sin will make us happy.

But to get all this strength you need to be willing to give your life over to Jesus. Right now your life is not being controlled by you but by drugs and sin. So it’s not about you deciding between you controlling your life versus Jesus. It’s about drugs and sinful desires controlling your life versus Jesus. You may think you are in control of your life but you are not. We always worship something - either Jesus or some other things that we are putting ahead of him and that are harming us.

I would love it if you would ask Jesus to show himself to you and to take away all of your sin (not that we won’t ever sin again) but to forgive you of your sin and to take over your life and fill you with his Holy Spirit. And he will do that if you seriously ask Him to.

As I said, right now it may seem like you are in charge of your life and so you don’t want to give that control over to Jesus but you are being deceived. Drugs and sin are really in charge of your life, not you. There are only 2 choices: Jesus or sin.

Please make the right choice. It doesn’t mean you won’t sin again. Heck, look at me as an example of someone who has put my faith in Jesus but continues to sin. But it’s infinitely better than living the way you are - letting drugs and sin be in charge. Please make the right decision. Please!

I would also like you to either go to church with us or to a church near where you live.

Going to church is a lot like going to an AA or NA meeting where we are reminded of what Jesus did for us on the cross and that His Holy Spirit lives in us and can enable us to do what is truly good for us and those we love, not what our sinful nature tells us to do.

It also gives us support and encouragement from other believers as we strive together to live our life in a way that is healthy and beneficial to ourselves and others - in other words, God’s way.

I love you!

The grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say no to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.                                                                                        Titus 2:11-12