With all our heart, with all our soul and all mind

It's been a little while since my last post mainly due to not knowing how to write, so I don't share to much information on the people I work with. It has been really hard working with people in their struggle with addiction lately. My powerlessness over them has been sticking out as I have had to watch people make their own decisions which has led them into disastrous places. It's hard sometimes to turn them over to the Lord when I want to grab them and make them do the right thing. Someone dear to me took his addiction to the end the other night and the result was death. I know I could not have done anything more, but inside of me I wish I could have. Someone asked me recently what was more important, sobriety or sharing the Gospel. To some this is a complex question because many who struggle with addictions aren't open to the gospel until they get sober. The truth is that sobriety isn't a guarantee but salvation is. The word says in Romans that if we believe in our hearts and confess with our mouth that Jesus is lord then we are saved. I also know that if we seek the Lord with all our heart and all our soul and mind he will keep us sober. I was blessed to see and witness my brother accept the Lord in his heart and confess Jesus as his savior. Therefore I believe in my heart that now he no longer has to struggle with this addiction and he truly knows what freedom is like with the Lord. We all know what it is like to struggle with some kind of addiction because our struggle is with sin. In Jesus there is victory. So then what is my job? I believe that it is to share the Gospel with men and women and to point them to Jesus. He is the way, the truth and the life!