Intoxication

Have you ever been intoxicated? To my shame I have been intoxicated. I remember that when I was intoxicated, I would say things that I would not normally say. The alcohol was the substance that would control my words! I so do not have a good singing voice, and when I was intoxicated, I would sing. I could draw a crowd at a karaoke bar, and people would applause not because of the fact that I was good. It was the fact that I was drunk and they encouraged me to continue in my stupid-fest. Then, God dropped a bolder in my life, and I gave my life to Christ. The new distinctive of my intoxication was not alcohol, but the Bible. Let me explain. I flat-out love the Bible. There is something about the Bible that I love. I love going into Christian book stores and smelling Bibles. I know I am weird, but so are you. There is just something about opening the Word of God! Does that ring in your soul that the Bible is the "Word of God"? It is the ordained message of God! 

The greatest benefit of the Bible is that it will intoxicate you! It will alter your thinking, mood, will, desires and inclinations. It makes me say thing that I would not normally say. (Oh, by the way, a couple of years ago... I went to this "Christian-Festival-Thing" and I went into this karaoke tent and sang "Jesus-Freaks" and "My Heart Will Go On" yes that lame song from the movie Titanic. Man, did I draw a crowd) I had to get that off my chest. OK, I am back now. The Bible is the only book that has the power to intoxicate your mind. Paul says that it is "Breathed out by God." It comes from the very breath of God. 

Allow me to give you some stats that will stagger your mind.

1. The Bible is composed of 66 books.

2. There is 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 in the New     Testament

3. There is 1,189 Chapters

4. 41,173 Verses

5. 3,566,480 words

That took me like a month to count that! Paul says that all the Bible is "Breathed out by God" every last Word is the Word of God! Allow it to be the intoxicating substance in your life!