Why do the 12-Steps claim so assuredly that Hashem will cure us if we let Him? Some people are sick with cancer and don't get cured...
David ("Rage") responds:
I have come to the following conclusion: We can never understand why Hashem sometimes cures the cancer patient and sometimes he seemingly sits back and watches... It would be foolish to begin trying to figure it out... But there is something special about this particular disease we have... You see, the cancer patient's problem is that these messed up cells are eating him up alive... We pray and sometimes Hashem cures and sometimes not.... The pneumonia patient has a problem with an infection in his lungs which is restricting the oxygen to his brain... We pray and sometimes Hashem will take away the infection and sometimes he will not.... But the sex addict - ahh, the sex addict - he suffers from a total disconnect from Hashem and from the reality that Hashem placed us in... It is NOT the case that we turn to Hashem in order to cure us... FALSE!... We are sick because we lack a proper G-d/reality in our lives. So by turning to G-d and accepting his reality, automatically we are becoming cured... Our sickness is one of a lack of G-d, so it's not that maybe G-d will cure us and maybe He will not, but rather when you have taken your life to Him and let Him control you, you are curing yourself of your disease....