What to do about a life out of control

A young man meet a preacher and they talked for several hours.  The young man talked about how his life has spiraled out of control and he felt he was now at rock bottom.  The preacher, of course, told the man of Jesus.  The young man promised that he would go to church with the preacher and learn more of this Jesus but he never did.
  We all know that if your addiction is destroying your life that you can regain your direction by getting rid of the addiction.  It may feel like your life is out of control whether it be drugs and/or alcohol, relationship problems, bad financial decisions ,  deviate behavior, or some other thing that has control over you but realize that something has control of your decision making process that is causing the feeling of hopelessness.  You need to regain control but how?
   Addictions and deviate behavior makes you feel out of control and you are but something has control of your life.  It may seems like the solution is to regain control but instead one is urged to turn control over to another.  Instead of being controlled by destructive behavior let the Holy Spirit have control of your life.
   I know one will miss the party's and will lose many friends but for most people in this situation it is the party's and friends that are keeping them in the gutter.  It is almost impossible for a person  to decide to clean up their lives and be successful at it.  A drug addict that turns to prostitution to pay for her drugs vows that she is going to change while she is in jail but when she is released she finds that she has no where to go and so has to return to her former life, caught up in a spiral that she can't seem to get out of.
  Instead of taking the fun out of life, Christ returns your life to you and fills you with joy.  Unless you believe in and trust Christ it is something you just can't understand.  Just as I find it difficult to understand the lure of alcohol, and drugs, or the desire to hurt people, it may be hard to accept that Christ is real especially in this unbelieving world but the truth is He is real and He is alive and he will keep His promises.