Addictions, drawn by the flesh.

There are different addictions which befall different individuals.

I never could acquire the taste for beer, or any other alconolic beverage.

I am not addicted to cigarettes, or drinking coffee. And I never desired dope of any kind. God miraculously spared me from those things, though coffee may be alright, and I will not refuse a cup now and then, black, and with no sugar.

Some are addicted to gambling, and some to sexual pleasures of any and all descriptions.

Many to stealing; others to covetousness, which is also lust.

There are 'chronic' liars, and one cannot believe any thing they say, because they will lie, when the truth would do better.

So very many must be first, or best, in everything brought up in a conversation. And some are a legend in their own mind. Also, there are some who are their own 'super ego'!

But pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty (high-minded) spirit before a fall.' (Proverbs 16:18)

There are so many things that our flesh ('with its affections and lusts') are drawn to, and become an addiction, and though noone, I believe, is addicted to them all; but they are all out there, and our sinful flesh will pull us to them, one here, and one there.

That's why we need to accept Jesus into our hearts and into our lives, so we can 'keep under my body, and bring it into subjection' (to the will of our mind, with which we desire to serve the Father, if we are His child. And I invite everyone, no matter what you ahve already done, to come to the Father by Jesus Christ, the only Savior of the lost souls of men. Acts 4:12.

Philippians 2:3:
 3) "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind (humility) let each esteem other better than themselves."

"Humble yourselves therefore under tha mighty hand of God, that He might exalt you (lift you up) in due time:" (I Peter 5:6)

"God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble." (James 4:6, I Peter 5:5)