You Are Not An Alcoholic

Yes, you heard it right, you are not an alcoholic. Perhaps for years you have struggled with alcoholic problems with very little success. You are obedient and go to an AA meeting each week. Good for you for doing this. However Christian Science can help you find a permanent solution to addiction.

To start with you have to change the way you have been thinking about yourself. You are God’s perfect child. Why because God is love and He created you in His own image and likeness. There is nothing God has made that is not perfect. Jesus told us this. “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”(Matt. 5:48)

You need to stop believing all the history about addiction. You are not part of a family of alcoholics. You are the child of God and so is every member of your human family. There is nothing that can be past down to you because your life is spiritual and not material. You are not made up of blood and bones but of spiritual ideas. Some of these spiritual ideas are unselfishness, kindness, purity and integrity. Can purity be drunk of course not?

Perhaps the reason you started to drink was to be more socially acceptable. However you have always been acceptable to God because you are His adorable darling. He accepts you just the way you are. How can God not love what He created?

Maybe you drink because you think you are more relaxed. Is there something to fear? If you think this then there is a time when God is not with you. This is a lie God is always with you every minute. “Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”(Isa. 41:10)

You need to destroy the power of the addictiveness of alcohol. Alcohol is not your God and you do not need to bow down and worship it. Mary Baker Eddy in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures says, “You must control evil thoughts in the first instance, or they will control in the second.”(234:26-27) You can control it, when you see that addiction is not a stimulus but an aggressive suggestion that there is a power besides God. You do not need it for your life. Life is God always has been and always will be. You do not need to be dependent on anything but the presence and the power of God.

A speaker at my Christian Science Association a few years ago said this startling statement about alcohol. She said if Jesus could turn water into wine why cannot you turn wine into water. You can when you cease to believe that it has a power over you. You will not be lured by its desire because your thought will be focused on the things of God and not of the things of the world.

AA is wonderful because by saying I am Bill I am an alcoholic it was the first step at facing down alcoholism. Now take the next step by saying with absolute affirmation I am Bill the perfect child of God now and forever. “Citizens of the world, accept the "glorious liberty of the children of God," and be free! This is your divine right.”(Science and Health 227:24-26)