Finding Faith in Rehab

Christian drug treatment programs help restore your body and mind as well as your spirit. They work to combine the best of the science of recovery alongside the spiritual element and they recognize the importance of both. Throughout your time in this type of treatment program, you will develop a sense of your addiction as well as the role your faith will play in recovery.

Understanding Addiction

As an addict in the midst of recovery, you know how crucial understanding the question what is addiction is and how it relates to your life. Viewing addiction through a spiritual lens only deepens your understanding and leaves you ready for true healing. Addiction affects more than your body, or your emotions and your relationships; it also affects your spirit. It is the void you feel when you are separated from God. This void, this emptiness, can be so overwhelming that you seek to fill it in a variety of ways, including drugs or alcohol. But working to fill this void with anything other than what it is meant to be filled with is like trying to put a square peg in a around hole—parts of the hole may be filled, but never completely. Your addiction is a separation from God that cannot be completely filled by anything other than restoring your relationship with Him.

Finding Spiritual Recovery

Spiritual recovery is one of the simplest portions of your recovery process; yet it seems to be one many people struggle with. Throughout your recovery, you have already acknowledged you are powerless over your addiction. You have also acknowledged the restorative power of a greater being. This acknowledgement is not about religion, nor is it about church; it is a personal statement, just like your faith is personal. True spiritual recovery occurs in the midst of those statements. It is about moving from being self centered to being God-centered.

Relying on Faith

Once your spirit has been restored, once that God-shaped hole is filled with Him and nothing else, you stand on solid ground to move forward in your life of recovery. But that filling can become dislodged if you do not renew it on a daily basis. Just as you will choose to stay sober every day, you must also choose to keep your focus on God. He will never leave you, never forsake you; however, He will not make choices for you. Instead, you must learn to rely on His strength and power, on His word and guidance, and on His love and grace each and every day. This occurs through daily prayer and Bible study.

Recovery is a lonely process. You may have tons of support from family members, even counselors and group members in your treatment program; but at the end of the day, your recovery is up to you and you know you cannot do it alone. This is where faith comes in. Faith in recovery from addiction is the component that reminds you recovery does not have to be a lonely process. With a strengthened faith, you walk day-by-day, moment-by-moment, with a God who is willing to be there every step of the way.