It has been confirmed. I have A.I.D.S.! The proper diagnosis is: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. What's more, the type of A.I.D.S. I have been diagnosed as having, affects not only the physical body but unto the deepest levels of my psyche. I have the dread disease of psychological A.I.D.S.

   Let me explain the psycho-dynamics of this disease, which has been referred to by some in the psycho-religious establishment as "cancer of the soul." I have acquired, through repetitive deviant behavior, an immune deficiency that allows many forms of addictive disease to run rampant in my psyche and body. My mental, emotional and volitional capabilities seem to have no defenses against these diseases, and repeatedly fall prey to almost every self-indulgent disease that I come into contact with. A functionally healthy person tends to have personally and socially developed immunities that overcome these diseases and disallow them to attach, germinate and infect, whereas my immune deficiency allows these addictive diseases to decimate my well-being and create dysfunctional behavior and dysfunctional interpersonal relationships.

   Yes, I have tried many of the purported treatment options. I have subjected myself to the self-imposed isolation of quarantine, the self-inflicted masochism of "dying to self," positive thinking, the suppressionism of legalism, healing services, and demonic exorcism. All to no avail. Frankly, I became very weary of biting at the bubbles of every procedure touted to be the miracle-cure of recovery.

   I seemed to be getting weaker and weaker day by day. Numerous addictive diseases had infected the behavioral organ of my soul, which seemed powerless to deal with them. The pain was unbearable. It was a form of living death.

   But I am excited to announce that I have discovered the cure for the particular form of A.I.D.S. from which I suffer. It is not a "cure" in the sense that this condition will be removed from this world we live in. I will have this immune deficiency for the rest of my life. But there is a treatment remedy that overcomes, i.e. "cures", the dysfunctional consequences of the addictive behaviors that have attached themselves to my life.
____________

   Though spiritually regenerated, Christians are not immune to the behavioral motivations of the "flesh", that patterned propensity to selfishness and sinfulness within the desires of our soul. We seem to have an "immune deficiency" for overcoming the habituated behaviors of the past, our "besetting sins" (Hebrews 12:1).

   Our promise of a "cure" so as to enjoy life and health and a restoration unto functional humanity is in the words of the Apostle Paul:

   Romans 8:2 - "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death."

   Galatians 6:16 - "walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh."