Drunks Have It Right

     Scripture says we are not to be drunk with too much wine, but, as opposed to that, be ever filled and stimulated with the New Wine, the Holy Ghost.  The alcoholics have it right, they are just drinking the wrong stuff.  "and be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit" Eph. 5:18.   Why?  Anything less, Scripture says is to be "unwise", not understanding the will of Lord (Eph.5:17).  This is the will of God!   We are to not walk as fools, we are to redeem the time because "the days are evil".  

   When a drunk is surrounded by pressures, by the inability to cope, by things he cannot deal with, has no answer for, what does he do?  He gets drunk.  While he is drunk, his cares are over.  According to Scripture (Eph. 5:14-20), we are to also do the same, only make a different choice of what we drink.  We were made to drink New Wine, the Living Water, the Wellspring, the Holy Ghost.  Today, the world looks dark.  Wars and rumors of war, earthquakes all around, financial meltdown looming. It is time!  Go get drunk.  Get filled again and again with the Spirit.

   Have you ever heard about casting your cares on the Lord, for He cares for you?  How do you do that?  This is what the Spirit of the Lord is teaching us in these great verses.  When we are saturated to overflowing (baptized), an event that should occur every day, we are redeeming the time.  Oh, of course, you can moan, groan, fear, tremble and sweat cold sweat, hoping things get better.  Or, you can get drunk.  You can "make merry" with the Father.  You can go to a place where Jesus turns water to wine and you drink it.    It is a shame that religious leaders to to Jesus, who is the bread of life, but do not lead them to the water and wine, the Holy Ghost.  Jesus promised, not only to be our bread, our manna, but also to give us to drink. He promised us a springing up well.

   Friendly advice?  Start every day asking to be filled with the Spirit. With your confession and meditation, develop a thirst, an appetite, for the HOly Ghost,  (the manifested presence of God on earth).  Pursue the Holy Ghost with your actions, your thoughts, your prayers, your confession.  Ask Jesus for the Holy Spirit.  Jesus said if you do, that is what He will give you.  He won't play games with you (Luke 11).  Make the Spirit of God the center of your being and He, in turn, will make the Lordship of Jesus a powerful reality.