Daily Devotional – 12/28/12 “Take the lemons you’ve been given…”

Make some lemonade and add it to your moscato wine and have a glass! Yea, I know it says take the lemons you’ve been dealt and make lemonade but aren’t we all grown? With the world the way it is, sickness hitting every part of your body, debt on the increase, jobs and income on the decrease, men aren’t acting right, women letting it all hang loose without trying to keep it tight, kids acting like strangers in your home and some have moved back even though they’re grown, death has been actively roaming in your family tree and you’re trying to be as strong as you can be; you need a little spirit to lift your spirit. Child please! Proverbs 31:6 says, “Alcohol is for the dying, and wine for those in bitter distress.” This is why I said wine and not alcohol for the bible says in 1 Timothy 5:23, “Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.” Now, let me make a point here before one of you go out and get drunk saying, “She told me to drink!” … Because I said wine, not alcohol and I said A glass and not the whole bottle. See, I understand the toils that a person can go through in their day to day life but that doesn’t have to make you an alcoholic. You can go home at night and have a glass of wine to calm your nerves in order to sleep well but don’t get drunk and start acting a fool that keeps the whole house up. Because even though the bible says that wine is for those in distress, it also says in Ephesians 5:18, “Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit.” God says, in His word, that we have to be sober minded because the devil is always prowling (1 Peter 5:8) for a way to slip into our lives and being funky drunk, tore up from the floor up and wasted with your buzz on; allows him to do just that. And now, you’re sitting around making excuses after you’ve wrecked your car, taken an innocent person’s life, slept with somebody you just met or acted a complete fool at the club. If you have to remember what you did the night before because you were too drunk to know; you have a problem. What I’m saying is this; living is hard and you will have troubles, you will get lemons from things that you thought were sweet but turned out to be sour but that doesn’t mean you have to be some other person than who you are supposed to be. You don’t have to be that girl at the club who is always drunk and the guys like to feel on or that guy at the bar who is always drunk and shows out when his team loses. You don’t have to be known as the alcoholic of the family; so get yourself together before it’s too late because if you don’t and you say, “I’m high as hell,” you will be because hell is where you’ll be!