How can we know what will happen to us when the LORD alone decides? Our inner thoughts are a lamp from the LORD, and they search our hearts. It isn’t smart to get drunk! Drinking makes a fool of you and leads to fights (Proverbs 20:24, 27 &1 CEV).
Without some sort of a premonition, we are not promised tomorrow, however since the Lord knows what will happen to us, isn’t it prudent to ask his advice in all that we do or plan to do!
Deep down we should know what we would do in any given situation, but when the reality of the situation in upon us, many times we fail. See Samson as an example for this (Judges 16).
Today the sage is saying, our inner thoughts come from what we put into our spirits. They are a composite made up from the deposits that come from our various gates, namely our eyes, what we see, our nose, what we smell, our tongue what we taste, our fingers what we feel and our ears what we hear. We are informed from our senses but as he says in verse 1, our senses can be skewed by a variety of things. For youngsters, drink is particularly potent and can ruin their prospect. Binge drinking is a serious problem among our young people today, so the advice from the sage given over 3500 years ago is still particularly pertinent today.
So allow the Lord to lead in all that you do and he will order your steps aright!
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