Day 25

Alcohol and physical health

Thankfully, it is likely that you are reading this as a Seventh-day Adventist you don’t actually drink alcohol. As a result your life experience will be better than most with fewer physical problems. A Friday night visit to Accident and Emergency is not likely to be your destination this week as a result of an alcohol related injury.

You will have taken note of the Apostle Paul’s advice that Timothy should take a little wine for his stomach’s sake. Please don’t think of that as a permission to take a little wine when YOU have a stomach ache. Nowadays the advice would be, take an Alka Seltzer, take Gaviscon – take pretty much anything else other than wine! We have better methods of looking after our stomach’s these days. The issue is to aim for good health.

Take some time to look after your health today.

Peter