I have two friends who recently became Christians. Before their conversion they both had serious drinking problems. One said to the other, “Before I was saved I drank a fifth of whiskey a day.” The other one said to me, “I hated to tell him, but I spilled that much every day.”
My friend has now been dry for several months. He says, “The real miracle is that for the last two months I haven’t even wanted a drink.” Before he became a Christian, he said, he had tried to quit many times. But it was always because he felt he had to. Now he said, “I quit because I wanted to.”
That’s what people need—someone to change their “want to” and then enable them to do it. Almost anyone can tell an alcoholic wh...