Friday: Snakes in Your Mind

Proverbs 23: 29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? 30 Those who linger long at the wine ( smoke, pipe, spoon, needle, or drug. Those who go in search of the high, fix, dope, opiate, or stuff) 31 How can you look at the wine (rock, powder, spoon,

smoke, or needle? Or even fentanyl?) And think it will bring refreshment or relief? 32 At the last it bites like a serpent, And stings like a viper/cobra, snake. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, And your heart will utter perverse things. 34 Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, Or like one who lies at the top of the mast, saying: 35 “They have struck me, but I was not hurt; They have beaten me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake, that I may seek another hit?!

Has alcohol and or drugs been like the bite of the serpent or sting of the viper/cobra

that has seduced/lead your mind astray? Explain