The Bible on Addictions
Proverbs 23: 29-35
Who scream? Who shriek? Who have strife? Who have anxiety? Who have wounds for nothing? Who have black eyes? Those who linger long over wine, those who engage in trials of blended wine. Look not on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the glass. It goes down smoothly; but in the end it bites like a serpent, or like a poisonous adder. your eyes behold strange sights, and your heart utters disordered thoughts; you are like one now lying in the depths of the sea, now sprawled at the top of the mast. "They struck me, but it pained me not; they beat me, but I felt it not; when shall I awake to seek wine once again?"
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Addictions are helping to destroy this country. It does not matter if it is drugs, alcohol, or porn... individual addictions are family addictions are community addictions are national addictions, and before you know it, the will and soul of the entire world has been lost. The above quote is over two thousand of years old, as the oldest part of Proverbs goes back to the time of King Solomon, who actually authored some of the proverbs (not this section, however.) I hope that this quote, and additional Bible reading, can encourage at least some people who are addicted or who have either addicts or budding young addicts in their families to perform an intervention before it is too late.
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