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What does the Bible teach about drinking alcohol?
Daniel’s thoughts:
I feel that my “Alcohol and Jesus” blog post needed some further discussion and perhaps needed more balance. So I decided to reblog Rodney Hunts post “What does the Bible teach about alcohol?” because I found his blog to be thoughtful and centered on the real issue – the bigger picture – as a believer in Jesus. It is not about whether we are free to drink alcohol and all the discussion about “how much is too much” etc… but rather to ask ourselves, “how can we love others and respect where people are at? How can we respect their conscience and not offend them if we choose to drink responsibly to the glory of God or choose to never to drink again to the glory of God?
As with every freedom and gift God gives, it requires responsibility and discretion from us. Responsibility not to abuse the gift or exalt the gift above the giver. Discretion not to offend the “weaker brother” (as the Scriptures put it) who still views alcohol only as something dark and sinful.
Lastly, I wanted to share this response to my blog which I thought was pretty amazing and centered me back onto the big picture:
“For me Daniel, this life we live with Christ is not about liberty, I’m a slave in chains to the Gospel of Christ. It’s not about liberty for me, it’s about love. Paul spoke very eloquently about the effects/affects of abusing our liberty. I’m not going to be religious by quoting Scripture and writing things everyone already knows and essentially rejects because they want to prove their liberty. I’m so in love with my God and His Christ, who is also my Lord/Savior, that I don’t want anything or anyone to come in between us. And, I also don’t want to approach the day of Christ stumbling or causing others to stumble because of my own determination to exert liberty this side of heaven. The liberty I want to prove here on earth, won’t matter one iota when I get to heaven. The whole world is looking for something or someone who is true, Jesus Christ was true, and we don’t seem to get it that as long as we live just like the world trying to balance on the tight rope of liberty, the world rejects us as not true. I’ve lived most of what you shared, broken home, broken relationships, substance abuse, sexual promiscuity, the whole nine, but I tell you this today, it was the love of God that changed everything for me and I am now magnificently obsessed with Him. And, I wouldn’t want to be a slave to anything or anyone else, including liberty. These are just my thoughts my heart no condemnation on anyone else, my choice in this life. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on how the Holy Spirit dealt with you about alcohol. He is the greatest individual teacher and I thank God for giving us such a help. He knew how much we would need Him.”
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Camping Trip at Nicolet National Forest – May 24th, 2013
The Plan:
Camp, fish, and explore the Whisker lake wilderness area of the Nicolet National Forest just west of Florence Wisconsin.
My friend Joe and I arrived at Perch Lake the morning of the 24th of May and planned to camp overnight. As soon as we stepped into the forest I noticed a plant I had read about and seen a couple of times in my childhood. Trillium. The forest was littered with it. (Littered is definitely not the best choice of words for this beautiful flowering wild edible.) I was fairly convinced it was Trilluim, (which was one of Euell Gibbons favorite wild edibles) so I started munching on a leaf. It tasted like spicy lettuce.
Joe exhibited ALOT of trust in my judgement and was snacking on Trillium and other wild edibles with me. (Caution: Properly identify and prepare wild edibles before consuming).
Before long we were thinking, ‘why did we bring food with us?’ It was all around us, free for the taking.
I soon spotted what looked like wild leeks, but with so many look alikes, I wanted to be sure. Eventually it was the smell that gave it away. The forest was tinged with the aroma of onion. I ended up collecting a bit to bring home and made a dinner of a white bass and wild leek.
(I must mention that this was perhaps the worst fish filleting I have ever done. Not only did it take me forever to fillet the 13 inch white bass, but I managed to somehow include every bone possible. Other than that it was quite tasty – Ellie liked the wild leek too!)
Our campsite was really nice on the west side of Perch lake. I was right in thinking we’d beat the Memorial day crowd to the five campsites by getting there so early on Friday.
Here is the view from our campsite:
and at night:
After setting up camp we went on a hike around lake Lauterman. We sampled some cattail shoots and had some great conversations.
The fishing at Perch lake was not what we expected. Apparently some ice fisherman with way to much time on his hands emptied the lake last winter of the massive Bluegill we had been told about. Or they were just avoiding my big and very obvious yellow canoe.
The cons of the trip:
1.) Ticks! We pulled off dozens of ticks while we were there and I spent the first few hours in my sleeping bag removing ticks and throwing them out the tent. The first thing I googled when I got home was “how to remove a tick” as I found that two had attached to my leg.
The highlights of the trip:
1.) My friend Joe. We laughed a lot and had a great time. I am glad to call him a friend and am thankful we get to spend eternity together as brothers – all thanks to our big brother Jesus.
2.) The wild edibles. It was cool to enjoy God’s bountiful provision of wild foods all around us on the trip. We ran into a couple who had an interest in wild foods as well and they asked me about which fern fiddleheads were good to eat and how to prepare them (by the way, fern fiddleheads must be cooked and avoid those covered with fuzzy hairs – otherwise enjoy like asparagus).
3.) The workout. Who needs P90X when you are lugging backpacks, hiking, portaging canoes and paddling around a lake. It was great!
Next time we’ll bring nothing but a knife, flint and a few survival essentials and survive a week in the rugged remote wilderness… or not.
Daniel Lovett
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