St. Patrick’s Day
A good day to get drunk?

So what is the purpose of this holiday called Saint Patty’s Day?  Well if you observe most people who celebrate it, who really are in love with this day, the purpose is quite simple… to drink until you get drunk…  to celebrate drunkenness.  But did you ever stop to consider what God thinks about all this?  Do you think that He put you here on this earth to waste time and money, to destroy your health and your family?  Just take a look at all the “blessings” and “joy” that alcohol provided for these people:

1. Bob ended up in the hospital with internal bleeding twice in the year that he died.  He died at age 36 when he  threw up in his sleep and suffocated in his own vomit, just a day or two after proposing to his girlfriend to be married.

2. Bill loved his beer so much that he ended up having a stroke that he managed to survive and then a second stroke that killed him.  And what a fine example to his children he was.  At least one of his daughters ended up becoming an alcoholic and because of it, losing custody of her three girls.

3. Frank loved to drink to the point where he once sold the tires off of his car to get more booze.  And this lover of alcohol ended up having to put his two kids in an orphanage.

4. Stanley was such an inspiration to his two sons that they both became alcoholics… just like Dad.  And what a “blessing” to all of their marriages this habit turned out to be.

And these are just some of the examples in my own family and extended family that I am sharing with you.  No my friend, drinking is something that your friends may think is fun, but it is something that God hates.  He did not put you here to glorify yourself.   You are either here in this world to get ready to spend eternity with a Holy God, or you are among the great multitudes, carelessly engaging in self-indulgence, willfully ignorant of the judgment that is rapidly coming upon you for a lifetime of rebellion against God and His commandments.

“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”  [1 Corinthians 6:9-10]