Once you learn that a pattern is dysfunctional, the smartest
thing to do—the only thing to do—is to stop whatever you are doing to keep that
pattern going, even if you don’t get whatever it is that you think you need
from working that pattern. It’s better
to not get what you need than to keep working a dysfunctional pattern. Your addiction to getting your needs met can
keep you in a dysfunctional pattern for a long time—for the remainder of your
life. The Bible says that God will
supply ALL our need, according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. The primary need that we all have, whether we
realize it or not, is to love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength,
and to love others as we love our self.
Love is an energy, like light or pure water, flowing out from the core
of your being which has been filled with the Holy Spirit because you have asked
Jesus to be the Lord of your life. Need,
on the other hand, is a pull inward toward your inner being because you feel
empty, void, incomplete. Humans cannot make humans complete. Only God can do
that. Loving and needing are not the same thing. The Bible teaches us to
look only to God for our needs [even our people-needs], and to look toward
others only with love, even if they are not doing what we think they should be.
This is the pathway of freedom.
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