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Drug
use is a growing crisis in our world today. This is one of
many signs that Jesus will return soon. Many youth and adults
fail to understand why drugs are wrong, and what they do
to us. More countries around the world, including Canada,
are taking steps to legalize drugs. This article will give
you a better understanding about drugs: what they do to us
spiritually, and why to stay away from them.
To
begin with, many people have a hard time understanding why
drugs are wrong when God "put" them here in the
first place. It is true that God did create many natural
drugs however like anything else you can use something for
good, or for evil. God created drugs for purposes of good.
Allowing doctors to develop ways to treat illnesses and diseases
are examples of God’s intentions. Now when you take
those same drugs and start abusing them, using them for purposes
other then God’s intention, that’s when you run
into trouble.
Let’s
remind ourselves that God gave man the ability to choose.
We can choose good or we can choose evil. Can you not cut
food with a knife, but also use that same knife to stab someone?
Drugs, whether you’re abusing a prescription or using
marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, etc. will only bring you closer
to Satan, not to God like some believe. Drugs will not enlighten
your mind. They might trick you into believing you perceive
better, giving you the feeling you have a higher knowledge,
but they will only destroy you. Note that not one time in
the Bible have drugs brought anyone closer to God. Using/abusing
drugs will bring you closer to Satan, and thus to death.
Commit
to memory that the wages of sin is death. “Doing drugs”,
that’s a sin. Now some might wonder: “what
does he mean sin will bring you closer to Satan (death) ?” Take
what I wrote literally. Drugs induce a deeper subconscious
state which enables you to have fellowship and communication
with demons. When you take drugs you are lowering you spiritual
defenses, allowing Satan in. You’re creating a satanic
relationship with demons, even though you may not feel or
realize it at first. This is why it’s so hard to quit
doing drugs. Not only have you created a physical relationship
or mental addiction, but a spiritual relationship and addiction
as well.
Satan
is the evil motivation behind the negative, vicious, destructive
nature of drugs. Drugs are a medium which he works through
to accomplish his goals and fulfill his wicked desires. They
allow him to operate in the suggestive realm, or the realm
of thoughts, more freely. Drugs will make you Satan’s
puppet, and you won't even know it. Most drug users fail
to even realize the drugs they took to escape reality have
ironically imprisoned them. Those who continue to take drugs
will eventually wake up to the harsh reality of a destroyed
life, destroyed hopes and dreams, along with a destroyed
ambition for anything else. Using and abusing drugs becomes
such a regular part of many people’s lives they are
to the point where life itself seems boring without them.
For some this massive state of depression eventually leads
to suicide, where Satan has won.
Drug
use will destroy you. Whether it’s
by addiction, sickness, disease, injury, failure, lost reputation,
lack of success, a broken hearted family, suicide or something
else Satan will destroy you if you let him. Burn inside your
memory that: “The thief
(satan) cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to
destroy…”
(John 10:10) Satan wants to see you burning beside him in hell.
Misery does love company.
If
you’re a Christian already and are having problems
with drug use, you have to understand that drug use does
not mix with a Christian life-style.
“You cannot drink the cup
of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the
Lord’s Table and of the table of demons.” (1
Corinthians 10:21) You can’t serve God and Satan at the
same time. It is impossible. You must give up the lust for
drugs. When you became born again, your old spirit man was
replaced; you were made new. You cannot cling on to the things
of the past, but continue to walk forward proclaiming you are
a new creation in Christ; a born again Christian. Christian
character is a drug free character. Beware to those who
are involved with drugs: For you may be fooling others
around you, possibly even yourself, but you are not fooling
God, understand that.
Now
the Bible also asks us this: “Know
ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit
of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God,
him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which
temple ye are.” (1 Corinthians 3:16-17)
Our bodies are Holy ground. If we want to be filled with
God’s mighty Holy Spirit we have to keep ourselves
Holy. Do you think God is going to come into a run down,
sin filled temple? Is that truly a place that the Most High
should be received? No.
The
old saying “we reap what we sow” is all truth.
Galatians 6:8 says: “The
one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature
will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit,
from the Spirit will reap eternal life.”
I cannot stress how important it is to sow to please the spirit,
not our sinful nature. If you feel trapped by drugs, Jesus
is only one who can set you free. God does forgive, and it’s
wonderful to know that once you ask for forgiveness, and stop
doing drugs, God forgets too, and you will never again be held
accountable for your old ways. Take a stand against drugs,
and refuse sin. Encourage all others to heed the warnings of
the Bible. Help others as you would your own children, for
we are all the children of God. We are all family.
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