Truth & Character Thursdays
Sins
Drunkenness
On a recent Youtube Livestream that I was watching, a few of the participants got very drunk. They were so drunk that they were falling off their chairs and saying nonsensical things.
To be honest, it was funny to watch but also a bit embarrassing. One of the participants talked about his regret the next day. He even mentioned that he might take a break from his Youtube Channel because he doesn’t want to continually get sucked into drinking too much.
That’s so often what happens - you don’t have the intention of getting drunk, but you just get carried away with friends and keep drinking because you are having fun. Once you get a little buzzed everything seems easier and funnier. You’re making people laugh and feeling your cares drift away, so you take another drink and another and then another. Before you know it, you’re past the point of no return.
You might not have any moral objection to drunkenness, or you might believe that drunkenness is a sin - but what we can probably all agree on is that we often do embarrassing things when we are drunk. We do things that we wish we could take back.
When we are drunk we lose control of our faculties - and whether you think that’s funny or not, losing control of our faculties can lead to bad and inappropriate things.
Like I said, you might not think that drunkenness is a sin, but I think it’s worth considering the effects of losing control of your mind and body. I know many people who have made terribly bad decisions because of drunkenness - they’ve gone along with the crowd and committed a crime because they weren’t thinking straight. They’ve gotten themselves pregnant, which was not in the plan. They’ve said or done things that have hurt the people they love. They’ve been captured on video doing something embarrassing that got posted on social media. The list of regrets from stuff people do when they’ve been drunk is very long.
Not to mention the ill effects of drunkenness on our health!
So whether or not you believe that drunkenness is a sin, it’s worth considering the outcomes of our actions.