Devotions; Defeating the Destroyer

Day 199

You can go for three weeks without food. (I'm pretty sure, I know it's something like that) Water is different though you need to return and get nutrients from water daily if you aren't just laying on the couch all day. We all have something we go to all the time for nutrients so that we really can't go without it. For me it's books I rely on books when I'm lonely, bored, or just when I want to. But a lot of the time what we're returning to for nutrients is really sucking the life out of us. We don't notice it until it's too late. It's not always a bad thing originally that you get addicted to, I just said for me it's reading and reading isn't a bad things. It's when you look to that thing to give you happiness that it becomes bad, only God can give you true lasting joy. I had a friend who was depressed and he would get a girlfriend and for a while he really happy. Then something would happen, they'd break up and he'd be miserable. It was hard to watch because I knew there wasn't a girl who could make him happy only God can do that.