Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Escaping Reality...

When I used to teach Health classes in high school, when we got to the drug chapters, I would always ask my students, “why do people use drugs?” I would get all kinds of answers, ranging from “it’s fun” to “to manage pain”. The students didn’t really think about what they were saying, but there was a lot of truth in their responses. Truth that they never took the time to dive deeper into. My response was always, “people do drugs to escape”, pain, sorrow, guilt or shame, etc... they did drugs to escape their reality. It’s just the cold hard truth. People may say that it’s fun, but what’s fun about giving up your control of yourself? Or waking up in a fuzz, wondering what you did or someone did to you the night before? What’s fun about waking up with a severe headache, or sickness that takes time to get over? What’s fun about waking up in a hospital and hearing about how you killed a family of four in an auto accident? What’s fun about knowing you have to be drugged to be able to be silly or comfortable around others? That doesn’t seem very fun to me. Here in chapter 31 of Proverbs you get a glimpse into the reality of drug use. Alcohol is for the dying, meaning to ease the pain of death and pain. Wine is for those in distress, to help calm down the overwhelming effects of stress. And to forget their problems. It doesn’t say it’s fun. People want to escape reality so they experiment with drugs instead of facing their realities. Have you ever heard a story of how drugs saved someone’s life? Made them a better person? Why? Because escaping reality doesn’t work. And worse yet, it effects everyone around the user, a detriment to society. Troubles don’t go away because you ignore them.

6 Alcohol is for the dying, and wine for those in bitter distress.7 Let them drink to forget their poverty and remember their troubles no more. Proverbs 31:6-7

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