You A Drinker?

Are you a drinker?  When you're happy, you drink.  When you're mad, you drink.  When you're frustrated, you pour it up for that too.  You drink to remember.  You drink to forget.  You drink to get over things and you drink to get through things.  Well consider this.  Noah was a man who had a good relationship with God.  God spoke to him and he listened to God.  His relationship with God was so good, in fact, that when God flooded the earth he only spared Noah and his family. After the flood, Noah grew a vineyard. He drank the wine from it and got drunk.  I don't know if it was Noah's first time being drunk or if it was even his intention to get drunk.  But I do know the Bible says he was passed out drunk, so he must have had a few.  While Noah was passed out, his youngest son disrespected him. Noah spoke a curse over his youngest son's youngest son due to the disrespect.  He spoke a blessing over his other sons.  Both the curse and the blessings came to past.  So Noah maintained his effectiveness and God still heard from him.  The thing about Noah is that more than anything, Noah was about God's business.  In the Biblical account of Noah, it is apparent that Noah lived for God not for drinking. So if you are a drinker, can you say the same?  If we ran the stats on the time spent in your day to day life would the percentages weigh heavier with God or with drinking? What about effectiveness? Has drinking taken you forward in your life or backward? Whatever the case, know this. God loves a drinker.  God is more than willing to do for a drinker. But God will only do for a drinker, what a drinker will allow God to do.  If your drink has become your saviour, God will leave it to you and your drink to work through the issues in your life. It won't end well. If you're reading this and you feel like drinking has overtaken you and you can't seem to overcome the desire no matter how you try.  Tell God that.  Tell him that right now you want your drinks more than you want him, but you choose him anyway. Tell him you need his help. God will make you stronger than your drink.

Scripture:

Psalm 46:1 (NLT) God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble.

2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness."

Prayer:

Lord, give us the wisdom to turn to you when we are overwhelmed with disappointment. You are our rock and our fortress.