Finding the Artificial Emotional Cocaine in Our Lives

9/19/2025

If you want to learn to grow closer to Jesus and never plateau or stop moving towards the full measure of the stature of Christ, this is part of it: Look for the things in your day when you’re feeling crummy, depressed, moody, hurt, lonely, whatever—that all of a sudden make you feel a bit more perky or a bit happier. If your confidence is down, what perks your confidence up? Etc. Find the artificial emotional cocaine in your life and put that on the altar for Jesus. You will grow. But it takes inward sensitivity to notice such things.

Ask me how I know. Three times and three different things before 7 a.m.!

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