A reminder for
today
Don't act
thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do. Don't be
drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the
Holy Spirit.(Ephesians 5:17-18)
Last night they had Jaws on one of the channels and I watched
it for a little while. I saw it when I was still in school and to watch it
again last night I must admit it was not the same. Technology really changed
the way we look at movies. What caught me for a moment is how the characters in
the movie make themselves available for danger. They would deliberately go and swim in the night or when they are attacked they will not try and get away they
will wait for the next attack. They almost acted thoughtlessly not understanding
the danger. Alcohol makes modern people act like that in today’s modern world. With
all the technology and health magazines and with medical aids focusing on
living healthy people still drink alcohol and they still smoke. I guess it is
something like telling a child not to touch a hot plate and they still do it. The
only difference is that the child will not touch a hot plate again, where a
smoker or a drinker will continue to do so. It is all about choices and I know because
I too made the same mistakes, until one day I realized that this is not what
God wants and I made a conscious decision to change. In the end it is a choice
you make and if you make that choice with you mind determined to change, you
will. But if you quit now and start again and then want to quit but you don’t
then you have not made a choice. You are actually fooling yourself.
So today my challenge is that you do not act thoughtlessly,
but seek what God wants you to do.
Lord, I pray for all of us caught up in the grip of alcohol
and all other addicted substances. I pray that you will guide us and give us
strength so that we will defeat the enemy and rid ourselves from an addiction.
In Jesus name.
Have an awesome day dear friend of Jesus.
Cheers