Bible Question: I am taking Suboxone to treat a opiate addiction I have- My question is, If I wanted to start going to church and wanted to be saved and except the lord as my savior, Do I need to quit at once, or should I wait until my treatment plan is up, or can I go while I am being treated? And still be saved? |
Bible Answer: That's a tough question to answer. In my humble opinion, I would have to say, it really depends on your attitude, your intent deep in your heart. IF you're willing to commit your whole being to the Lord, then you should be willing to give up your addiction as soon as humanly possible. This could be compared to other people with a smoking addiction or drinking of using profanity. There are many such addictions like pornorgraphy and many others. All of us come to the Lord at various stages of our lives. Some at a young age before starting these kinds of addictions and other come afterwards. The apostles found people addicted to being Jewish and welding much power. Some of those Judaziers couldn't give up that power as they insisted on promoting an unGodly doctine of circumcizing christians with no such authority from God. BUT the apostles made it very clear that repentance and forgiveness AFTER becoming a christian is most certainly available. The most inportant feature in all this is our intent in our heart. We may be able to fool our fellow man or even our fellow christians but on Judgment Day, we'll all be facing God Almighty and He will know every little word, every action and every intent in our hearts. So the final question is: Who will be controlling your life? God Almighty or your drug(s). Will you slip and fall in your future? Quite possibly but you'll have your family of christians around you along with the Most Powerful Being in the whole universe helping you. Go with God my friend, Bill |