{"id":5538,"date":"2026-07-14T15:19:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/?p=5538"},"modified":"2026-07-14T15:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:25:03","slug":"what-a-wretched-man-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/?p=5538","title":{"rendered":"What a Wretched Man I Am"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quitting an addiction is not too hard, I&#8217;ve quit many things many times, but the difficulty is in not relapsing and going back to the addiction. I should be in a  12-stop recovery program or in rehab if I  truly want to quit or else the underlying reasons for the addiction are still there. Well right now rehab isn&#8217;t feasible so I&#8217;m attempting to do the Celebrate Recovery program on my own. Being addicted will make you miserable. Having a substance control your life is a terrible way to live. I&#8217;ve been addicted to stuff nearly all my life. That&#8217;s a  life of bondage. I wish it on no one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I feel like Paul who said this: &#8220;So I find this law at work:\u00a0Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.\u00a0For in my inner being\u00a0I delight in God\u2019s law;\u00a0but I see another law at work in me, waging war\u00a0against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin\u00a0at work within me.\u00a0<em>What a wretched man I am!<\/em> Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!&#8221; Romans 7: 21-25 (emphasis mine). My hope is in that last verse&#8211;that it will be God who &#8220;delivers me&#8221; from this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quitting an addiction is not too hard, I&#8217;ve quit many things many times, but the difficulty is in not relapsing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/joint-medical-cannabis-twisted-grass-260nw-2320725451.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5538"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5546,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions\/5546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}