The American Board of Health has proposed
that warning signs be placed on all alcohol bottles to tip off drinkers about
the possible peril of drinking a pint or two of any alcoholic beverage.
1. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may
cause you to wake up with a breath that could knock a buzzard off a wreaking
dead animal that is one hundred yards away.
2. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol is a
major factor in dancing like an idiot.
3. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may
cause you to tell the same boring story over and over again until your friends
want to assault you
4. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may
cause you to thay shings like thish.
5. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may
cause you to tell the boss what you really think of him.
6. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol is the
leading cause of inexplicable rug burn on the forehead.
7. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may
create the illusion that you are tougher, handsomer and smarter than some
really, really big guy named Psycho Bob.
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The above may be comical but the problems
caused by alcohol is no laughing matter. Proverbs 23:29-35 has some warnings
for those who drink also. I will put them in the same format as the above.
- Warning: Consumption of alcohol brings woe.
- Warning: Consumption of alcohol brings sorrow.
- Warning: Consumption of alcohol causes contentions.
- Warning: Consumption of alcohol causes complaints.
- Warning: Consumption of alcohol brings “wounds without cause”.
- Warning: Consumption of alcohol causes redness of eyes.
- Warning: Consumption of alcohol bites like a serpent.
- Warning: Consumption of alcohol stings like a viper.
- Warning: Consumption of alcohol causes your eyes to see strange things.
- Warning: Consumption of alcohol causes your heart to utter perverse things.
- Warning: Consumption of alcohol causes you to do dangerous things.
- Warning: Consumption of alcohol causes you not to feel protective pain.
- Warning: Consumption of alcohol brings a desire for more and more in spite of the problems it causes.
Proverbs 23:29-35 Who has woe? Who has
sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes? 30 Those who linger long at the wine, Those who go in
search of mixed wine. 31 Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it
sparkles in the cup, When it swirls around smoothly; 32 At the last it bites
like a serpent, And stings like a viper. 33 Your eyes will see strange things,
And your heart will utter perverse things. 34 Yes, you will be like one who
lies down in the midst of the sea, Or like one who lies at the top of the mast,
saying: 35 "They have struck me, but I was not hurt; They have beaten me,
but I did not feel it. When shall I awake, that I may seek another drink?"
Two other verses in Proverbs warn against
alcohol.
Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, Strong
drink is a brawler, And whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Proverbs 31:4-5 4 It is not for kings, O
Lemuel, It is not for kings to drink wine, Nor for princes intoxicating drink;
5 Lest they drink and forget the law, And pervert the justice of all the
afflicted.
May we realize the dangers of consuming
alcohol and its addictive nature.
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