Edited Updated: Drinking after becoming a Christian

I was a regular user of alcohol some years ago. It was fun, freeing, lighthearted, and the next morning, regretful. So I ask myself "was it fun at all?"

    Last night I popped a bottle just for old time sake, did I have the urge to? Not at all. I just decided to drink. I ended the night with four beers and a cigar for taste, along with some heavy not so tasteful music, the kind that gets old wounds spilling over.  I'm not sure if drinking’s a good idea under any circumstance. I can tell you alcohol is called spirit for a reason; it brings them out or puts some in, and no I do not mean the holy ghost one either. There is a story in John chapter 2 verses 1-11, that talks about alcohol. Jesus and his mother was attending a wedding when they ran out of wine to drink. This is when his mother ask if Jesus would help. So he then took jars added water and turned the water into wine.

My theory to this story is it is a metaphor for faith of earthy desires to what really matters.

   As a christian you know you have no want for anything that is bad for you and alcohol is no different. Yet Jesus decided to use his gift to turn water into wine or is it that Jesus, who is the “living water” turns people from wanting what they so desire to becoming fully fulfilled with his drink. Which in the story the people admit is the best.

     I love the story because it's true that the living water that is Jesus is the ultimate “wine”. Once people taste his water/wine they have no need for anything else. His water encompasses the good spirit. The holy spirit that is needed for the best life, with no regrets in the morning.