One more for the Road

Getting drunk is fun and crazy; there is no doubt in that fact. You can let out your wild side, do the things you would not do otherwise. However, think about it for a minute. What do you have to show for all that fun?

While you are thinking about it let us tell you what we have experienced. You end up broke with a deadly hangover, throwing up in the toilet, trying to remember whom you were with and what you did with whomever. And every problem you tried to escape are still haunting you the next morning. The worse part about it they seem worse when you have a pounding headache. So what do you do, go out, and start it all over again. It is a never-ending merry-go-round.

Eventually you will hurt yourself or someone else. Maybe not physically, but in other ways. Being drunk can cause you to get into situations you do not want to be in. If someone is getting you drunk just to see you act stupid, first, those people are not your friends and second it is not worth your dignity. A true friend keeps you out of harms way.

Getting drunk and partying surely is not new to this world, but that does not mean it is right or healthy. So please read the following words very carefully, they may change your mind about the subject.

Genesis 9:21 (NKJV)

21. Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent.

I Kings 16:9 (NKJV)

9 Now his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him as he was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, steward of his house in Tirzah.

I Kings 20:16 (NKJV)

16. So they went out at noon. Meanwhile Ben-Hadad and the thirty-two kings helping him were getting drunk at the command post.

Proverbs 20:1 (NKJV)

1. Wine is a mocker,

Strong drink is a brawler,
And whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Proverbs 23:21 (NKJV)

21. For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,

And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

Proverbs 23:29-35 (NKJV)

29. Who has woe?

Who has sorrow?
Who has contentions?
Who has complaints?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?
30. Those who linger long at the wine,
Those who go in search of mixed wine.
31. Do not look on the wine when it is red,
When it sparkles in the cup,
When it swirls around smoothly;
32. At the last it bites like a serpent,
And stings like a viper.
33. Your eyes will see strange things,
And your heart will utter perverse things.
34. Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea,
Or like one who lies at the top of the mast, saying:
"They have struck me, but I was not hurt; They have beaten me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake, that I may seek another drink?"

Isaiah 5:11 (NKJV)

11. Woe to those who rise early in the morning,
That they may follow intoxicating drink;
Who continue until night, till wine inflames them!

Isaiah 28:7-8 (NKJV)

7. But they also have erred through wine,
And through intoxicating drink are out of the way;
The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink,
They are swallowed up by wine,
They are out of the way through intoxicating drink;
They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filth;
No place is clean.

I Thessalonians 5:5-7 (NKJV)

5. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

6. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.

7. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.