This is Addiction

Every person that is born into this world is a son of Satan. Satan cannot fulfill the desires of our heart. This means that there is a hole in the life of every human that needs to be filled by Christ. This vision is for those people who have yet to experience Christ and therefore do not know of His love. This vision is also for the people who have experienced the love of Christ in salvation but do not know yet the power of Christ to overcome the bondage of sin.
Life is spent trying to fill this hole with anything and everything imaginable. Sin temporarily attempts to fill the hole but it is never enough to sustain fullness. The hole is constantly emptying and more things are chased and even caught to try to cram into this emptiness.
Every human being on planet earth is born into depression (even though he does not realize it) because nothing fills the void. Failure to fill the chasm becomes a broken record in the life of the victim. Alcohol, illicit drugs, prescription painkillers, pornography, romance novels, gambling, television, power in business, food for comfort, an adulterous affair and worldly wealth are examples of what humans chase to fill the crater in their chest. These things they aggressively seek until the devil hooks them with the one desire of their heart that becomes a place of solace. "The devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour" (1 Peter 5:8). Ironically, whenever the stresses of this world become too much, the canyon that caused them so much pain and sorrow is now the first place they run because it is filled with the newfound love that has hooked them.
This newfound love becomes and obsession. The once-depressed individual is now fooled into a false joy that only lasts while the individual is swimming in the water of their addiction that is filling the abyss. Then, the newly elated individual begins to only be happy in the very crater that they once hated. They do not ever want to leave the place that gives them the most pleasure—the empty hole that has now been filled with sin. They are wallowing in it and they love it. It becomes their god and they begin to worship it with all of their resources. They begin to give more of their time to it. They begin to give more of their money to it. They begin to give more of their energy to it. They begin to give more of their heart to it. The obsession takes hold.
The individual cannot remember the days when this hole was the only thing in life that was empty. Now that this hole is filled with the devil’s toys, the rest of life begins to become empty. The cliff has now become the very place that the individual runs to in anticipation of escaping life. Over the cliff and into the abyss surrounded by comforting demons and lies.
Soon, there is not enough time to spend in fantasyland. Soon there is not enough money to allow them to stay for as long as they want. Family begins to get in the way. Work begins to get in the way (unless this is the addiction). They no longer desire to spend time with their spouse, the other parts of life that were O.K. before, now start to become an obstacle to time spent in the chasm. The alcoholic can’t go to Cracker Barrel and eat because they do not serve his addiction. The internet pornography addict does not want his wife and kids to be home because this keeps him from the only thing in life that brings him happiness. The young mother becomes angry with her children for interrupting her favorite television shows because they are the only things that numbs her from her stressful duties. The middle-aged woman locks herself in her bathroom to savor the Hershey bars that she keeps hidden under the sink. The gambler can’t go to Disney World with his family on a Saturday or Sunday because there is no media outlet to tell him who is winning the game that he has money on.
At some point, hopefully the addict begins to despise what he has become. He begins to hate the very thing that filled the void in his life. He simply says to himself that he will never go back to the chasm filled with sin anymore. That very day, he finds himself there again. He makes the promise again the next day but realizes that his thoughts are consumed with when he can escape from life and go and run through the flower-filled fields that he calls ecstasy. But now, when he is there in the chasm he realizes that it is a pit and he is trapped. He cannot get out of it. It holds him. He is enslaved. He is in bondage. He made a choice to chase it but now he cannot make a choice to escape it. Now his whole life is a hole. Relationships that he once enjoyed are being torn apart. The character that was once upstanding has turned upside down and is now being exposed for the whole world to see. Natural consequences from spending everything for the addiction now begins to rain destruction on him and he begins to see how his bad choices now affect everyone around him. This is addiction. This is life without Christ in the void.