Drugged

There are lots of things that may drug us.

Chemicals or even natural compounds can drug our mind and our bodies, doing damage that will follow us for the rest of our lives.

Religion and ideas may also be an opiate and drug.

Vanity and pride can control our minds and our imagination. ______________________________________________________

Majorities or 'authorities' may produce drugging effects to exclude us from the Way of God. Participation with them is like a barter. Our choice grants power to them, and by our choice they return favor, by granting us 'brownie points' (benefits).

"They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that you might affect them." Galatians 4:17

From the context of what is written before verse 17, it is clear "they" intend to turn us to toward bondage (see verse 9). But, "...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" 2Corinthians 3:17, and "stand fast ... in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free" Galatians 5:1. "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth ....?" Galatians 3:1.

The religious opiate influence exercises authority over our mind's ability to grasp the truth. Rather than provide the clues for what to do, our zealot's creed may bar our mind with charismatic and impressively sophisticated wording, which stalls our mind's ability to make any choice at all, since the crowd around us is satisfied with the 'brilliant creed' ... sleepy and contented ... it must be better than the 'traditions of our fathers', since careful Bible studies built 'our creed'.

Ephesians 5:18 says: "And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;"

The 'wine' we drank did not come from a bottle. It came from a pulpit. It came from a book we bought from the 'christian bookstore'. It came as habits established in the constant barrage of unrighteous deeds continually being justified.

Our pride may accept anger as being righteous, since should dishonor the 'diligent efforts of our studies in God's Word", as we make it mean what we want it to mean. And if that is left unchecked, a drunken anger controls our mind to allow what we would not have initially allowed when the anger was 'only a little bit angry at our critics'.

"But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, ..." Colossians 2:8

" ... they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation." 1Thessalonians 5:7,8

Armor is the preventative against becoming drugged. Why not put it on daily? On which day should we climb out of bed without His armor correctly fastened to cover us?

Those who are already drugged excuse themselves, or they wonder, "Somebody is drugged. Who is it? Either I'm drugged or my critics are drugged". Pride leads the drugged to believe the critics are the ones who are drugged. Deeply entrenched pride is zealously affected in that belief.

Is there any hope for the drugged? Ephesians 6 includes the Sword of the Spirit as a tool used to "stand against the wiles of the devil". If one who is truly drugged chooses Truth and Life, then the Sword is able to answer, "Which one of us is drugged?"

For example, test the anger. Does it bear good fruit? Another example: Test the love. Does it clearly reflect Christ's suffering?

Are we drugged into thinking our religious ways are a real walk of faith? What does God's Word say about faith?

-- DAS --

Drugged

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