Are You Identifying with Addiction Recovery or With Jesus Christ?

Most recovery programs tell you the LIE that you’re always “in recovery,” that addiction is a lifelong struggle, and that relapse is part of the process. We now know that this is a bold face lie! Disease is only a theory that cannot be and has not been proven. Know this: God’s Word tells an entirely different story… the real, true story. If you are in Christ, you are not just recovering… you are being supernaturally changed and being made new by Jesus Himself. You are being completely HEALED and have been given a future of an addiction FREE life!

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” — 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV)

The world and the 12 steps say, “Once an addict, always an addict.” But God says, in 2 Corinthians 5:17… “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” This means your past no longer defines you. You are not who you used to be. You are not just an addict in recovery—you are a child of God in the process of a transformation that leads to a lifetime of total freedom from addiction.

This isn’t about willpower, therapy, or self-help. This is about supernatural change. God is not patching up your old, broken self. He is rebuilding you from the ground up. The chains of addiction, shame, and regret are not your identity anymore. They are part of the “old things” that have passed away. This verse is a powerful declaration that in Christ, your past no longer defines you. God is actively making you new, and the old life—including addiction, shame, and guilt—has passed away.

When Jesus healed the blind, the lame, and the demon-possessed, He didn’t say, “You’re in recovery now. Try to manage your symptoms.” No, He said (below) . . .

“Your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.” (Mark 5:34 (NKJV)

Jesus doesn’t just forgive your past—He changes your future. But here’s the key: you have to walk in the new identity He gives you. Too many people in Christian recovery keep one foot in the old life, still claiming labels that Jesus has already stripped away.

If God says you are being made new, then that means your job is to believe it and live like it. Stop identifying with addiction, and start identifying with Christ.

“And that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.” (Ephesians 4:24 NKJV)

Are you still wearing the identity of addiction? Or are you putting on the new man? The choice is yours. God is making you new… just walk in it.

Have a blessed rest of your day as you walk in the newness of your God given life! Hope to see you in my next post. Bye for now.