Alcoholism

What you permit is what you become. When you permit yourself to indulge in any amount of alcohol you will eventually become hooked on it.

There is a popular saying. The man took the drink, the drink took the drink, and then the drink took the man. Drinking casually leads to a lifestyle of drinking.

There are certain things we do not allow in our house. Ice Cream is one of those things. If it comes in our house refrigerator, then we will most likely eat it. Eating eat causes habits to be established. So it is with wine or beer. Bringing it into our house is something we don't do. We don't go down the isle of it at the grocery store and we don't look at it when they try and set it on our table at the restaurant. You may say, "Why?" First off the Bible is clear about some things regarding strong drink. Don't even look into the red of the wine. Woe to the man who puts strong drink to another man's lips.

But you may say, "I just drink a little for my stomach's sake." Have you heard of those small round pills called TUMS or Rolaids? They will do the job.

When you bring any alcohol into your life you support an industry that promotes loss.

Proverbs 23:29-32 says some pretty pointed things regarding Alcoholism.

"Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder."

"And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;" Ephesians 5:18

There is hope however, "He sent His word, and healed them, and delivered them from
their destructions." Psalms 107:20