The more we follow the walk of Jesus and become solid worthy human beings then the closer we come to our Creator.

Needs” are much different from our “wants”. Addicted people are in some way attached to something either through emotions gone wrong or through a physical attachment like drug addictions.

When it comes to our physical needs we get warnings or cravings for certain foods because we need certain types of vitamins etc. If we are hungry our body lets us know that we need food. If we need to go to remove wastes from our body, our body will let us know. If we need to sleep our body lets us know because we will feel tired.

If we are lacking in love, or encouragement it can be seen in how we are struggling through life.
People pleasers are addicted to pleasing others because they lack something and need other things in their life – people pleasing is a reaction to what is wrong in their life. If you dislike yourself (and even if people say that they love what you have done for them but you feel useless, restless, unfulfilled and you refuse to let their comments lift you up) then you are suffering in some way. You are not getting your “required spiritual life” as you should do. Like the body, if something is missing it will affect your life in some negative manner and bring you down.

But if we are suffering emotionally it can affect our physical health in a negative way that will simply go on and on unless treated.
Requiring food is easily fixed, you simply eat some food. But the mind and the spiritual heart are a lot more complicated and people react to different situations in different ways. The right treatment is needed to solve an issue.

In the spiritual sense we need love to function properly. Those that don’t know love function in the physical sense and create their own version of the word love by encasing it is sexual pleasures and the material world, power, money etc. Love that fills the heart satisfies the soul and brings a new person to the front, someone who cares and grows like a flower in bloom.

We need encouragement from people that deeply care. We need to know that we are worthy and that we have some use that is helpful to others. Knowing that we are useful helps us accept our place in life and brings a feeling of deep fulfillment.

Having the courage to be responsible for the things that we should do gives us a feeling of being worthy. It really lifts us up spiritually when we do the things that we know we should do.

If we cater for our inner spiritual needs then we become satisfied with our life and we are free from all addictions and bad living.

To find this we must cast away the things that society has taught us. We must ignore the opinions of others who don’t believe us, and we must set ourselves apart from them and be with those who do believe. We will grow with the right spiritual encouragement as a flower blooms in Springtime.

We have our physical needs to look after and our spiritual needs.

The more we follow the walk of Jesus and become solid worthy human beings then the closer we come to our Creator. The closer we are to the thinking of Christ then the closer we are to being helpful useful human beings with courage and inner strength.

All the best from

James M Sandbrook.
18th of November, 2014.