I'm going to add two more things, before I go and lift today. Not feeling very strong, unlikely to do five reps of 310 LBS. I don't even know if If I can do even one.
I'm going to give you an example (
@Derf &
@Right Divider et al): I . . . drink too much, sometimes. Now drunkenness is some sort of sin, it's either straight grave matter, or it's definitely a sin otherwise, even if it's light, but the drinking that I could do in my past is definitely too much. It's not "a little wine". It's definitely not that.
And I treat alcohol intoxication as a grave sin in my own life, personally, just as I'm treating lifting weights in my own life, meaning I'm really doing it. This isn't just hypothetical or rhetorical story telling.
But I haven't fallen off the wagon for a long time by now. But I have in my past gone very long periods of time without drinking too much, without even trying. So I know that I can't let my guard down, because every one of those long periods of time where I was teetotaling before, ended up with me falling off the wagon again. It was like I was gleefully walking around the very very edge of the wagon looking down at the road as the wagon proceeded along. Whereas all you have to do is sit down, and you won't fall off the wagon, I was still on the wagon, but recklessly trying to balance around the edges of the thing instead of being safe, and then I fell off.
"What did you think was going to happen?" is the obvious accusation. Of course. Fair.
So in order for me to really snuff out the chance that I'll drink too much ever again, I need to set up like a sin war room, where all my top lieutenants gather and we're all focused on winning this war against this enemy.
Now here is where I'm going to say, that I know coffee or caffeine is not something you can gravely sin with. But I need it to be, that I can at times when needed, when felt to be needed, in order to definitely and safely avoid falling off the wagon of alcohol ever again, I need to sometimes be able to drink a LOT of coffee. That's just something that we all in the war room agree, that we need, in order to win this war against drunkenness, once, for all, perpetually. Sometimes, we might drink a whole entire pot of the stuff.
So if we take drunkenness as grave matter, and we taken all hopped up on caffeine as a light sin, then absolutely we are going to be drinking gallons of coffee and probably regularly. We value obeying the Lord Jesus our Master that much.