I like the message of the song The Core of My Addiction by Fireflight so much that I decided to write another devotional about it. May the force be with you also to be greatly moved by the biblical message of this song. I am speaking of the force and the attraction of the love of the cross of Jesus moving us to sacrifice our very lives to living for Jesus.

Paul writes, “For the love of Christ controls us” (II Corinthians 5:14). Most likely Paul is speaking not only of his love for Jesus but especially the love of Jesus on the cross capturing his heart. You might even say Paul was addicted to Jesus.

Addiction can be defined as a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects…the state of being compulsively committed to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma…an obsession that controls one’s behavior. The difference for Christians is that the addiction, attraction, and obsession is to love and live for Jesus because He is so amazingly awesome in His agape love for us.

Why would a Christian group write a song about addiction? Here’s the answer: before we become Christians we live for the flesh – you might say we were selfishly addicted to living for ourselves. In Titus 3:3 the apostle Paul writes, “For we also once were disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures…”. There it is – ENSLAVED = addicted = out of control living for the flesh. No wonder I wanted to write another devotional about this song.

Read Titus 3:3-8. Then listen again to The Core of My Addiction by Fireflight. Then be set free from the addiction of this life and be a freewill slave of Jesus Christ.