Contemplative Bible Reading

Habakkuk 2:15 (New Living Translation)

What sorrow awaits you who make your neighbors drunk!
You force your cup on them
so you can gloat over their shameful nakedness.

“Let’s get them drunk so they will embarrass themselves, and then we will have a good time!” So says the prophet speaking the words of God to His people.

Sound familiar? Where have we heard that before? Oh yeah, in high school, and just about everyday and everywhere since. Give them something intoxicating, something that causes them to lose sight of good sense and…

Me? Oh, there is no such thing that will go to my head and cause me to uh, er, well maybe there are a few things, but, you know, well, …

No. This is the same for all of us, and especially me. Pump me with the wrong right stuff and I lose sense of all that is the right focus of my senses, and the result is the last part of the above verse.

Please God, help me in my unbelief. Help me to avoid the tempatations of intoxication and intoxicating others.