I drank for courage and woke up night after night horrified. I drank for sophistication and became crude. I drank to find peace and ignited a war within myself. I drank to be friendly and became argumentative and nasty. I drank to be sexy and turned people off. I drank so that I could relate to others and I babbled. I drank to put down loneliness and found myself retreating more and more into my shell.
I drank to relax and woke up tense. I drank to be entertaining and became an obnoxious clown. I drank to live more fully and contemplated suicide. I drank for adventure and discovered disaster. I drank to be more honest and insulted my friends. I drank to quiet my nerves and woke up with hangover jangles. I drank to feel better and ended up sick and throwing up.
I drank to have fun and passed out in the middle of the party. I drank to pep myself up and ended up exhausted. I drank to feel successful (a big shot) but ended up a failure. I drank for security and became afraid of my shadow. I drank to feel better about myself and ended up hating me. I drank to prove I could handle alcohol and ended up knowing it controlled me. A friend said to me “But surely, now that you’ve been sober for a while, it would take a lot of alcohol to put you back in that condition.” “Just one drink,” I answered!
The above is an article I found and wanted to share with you as we have the specter of a Wet/Dry Election looming ahead of us. Now seems like a good time to remind ourselves of some basic facts. I am being told: “There is no reason to fight legal alcohol since we have all the private clubs, and drugs are a bigger problem, but no one is trying to stop drug abuse.” This reminded me of the old saying, “Someone told me to cheer up, things could not get worse than they now are. I cheered up and it got worse!” Friends, as terrible as our drug abuse problem and our alcohol related problems are, rest assured it can and will get worse with legalized alcohol all around us.
God’s Word condemns the consumption of alcohol and what it causes people to do. Isaiah spoke out against strong drink to those in Ephraim: “They have erred through wine and strong drink; they are swallowed up of wine and are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision and stumble in judgment” (Isaiah 28:3ff). Alcoholic consumption dulls the senses, causing people to make bad judgment calls and do evil things.
Paul said, “It is a good thing neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor to do any thing whereby your bother stumbles or is offended or made weak” (Romans 14:21). Not only does alcoholism affect the person consuming the alcohol, it affects the lives of his family, friends and others around him. The Wise Man said, “Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler and whosoever errs thereby is not wise” (Proverbs 20:1). In speaking of strong drink, Isaiah said it “justifies the wicked for reward and takes away the righteousness of the righteous from him!” (Isaiah 5:23).
The apostle Paul simply said, “Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, effeminate, abusers of themselves with men, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6: 9-10). Lovers of alcohol are listed among the number who will not enter Heaven.
Friends, we are being faced with the great possibility of having the sale and consumption of alcohol legalized in our beautiful county as we face the wet/dry election. A petition will be going around to obtain enough signatures to get the issue on the ballot. Encourage your friends and neighbors not to sign the petition. Your signature on the petition is one more vote for putting the issue on the ballot. If it gets on the ballot, then we must do everything we can to encourage those around us to vote against legal alcohol in the November election.
The “Keep Independence County Dry Coalition” is spearheading a drive to keep our county dry. Do your part to stand up for what is right and righteous. Your help is needed! May God bless our efforts at keeping our county dry!
For additional, timely as well as important medical information about alcohol consumption, please follow the link to Cassiobury Court at https://www.cassioburycourt.com/article/103/alcohol-and-breast-cancer-infographic
