WORTHLESS IDOL
Someone once sent the following words about his experience with alcohol to a newspaper columnist:
We drank for happiness and became unhappy.
We drank for joy and became miserable.
We drank for sociability and became argumentative.
We drank for sophistication and became obnoxious.
We drank for friendship and made enemies.
We drank for sleep and awakened without rest.
We drank for strength and felt weak.
We drank “medicinally” and acquired health problems.
We drank for relaxation and got the shakes.
We drank for bravery and became afraid.
We drank for confidence and became doubtful.
We drank to make conversation easier and slurred our speech.
We drank to forget and were forever haunted.
We drank for freedom and became slaves.
We drank to erase problems and saw them multiply.
We drank to cope with life and invited death.
What a lamentation! Men seeking satisfaction in vain things of this life. Many people engage in a lot of ugly things just to find happiness. In as much as those things are sinful, they will multiply sorrow instead. “Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own mercy.” Jonah 2:8 [NKJV]. Those worthless things will eventually bring sorrow and regret in the end. What are you in bondage to that appears to give you momentary satisfaction? Consider the awful end that those worthless things can lead you. Give them up and embrace the free offer of abundant life through Jesus.