Drinking and thought

" Drunkenness may expose and unleash things deep inside of you, but it doesn’t have any good news for the darkness that emerges. It will show you all of you, and then soothingly promise that laughing at what you see will make it all better.

The gospel also exposes that secret side of you, but then it frees you from you. Instead of drowning yourself in something that numbs the pain and blurs reality, why not drown yourself in the grace that will åforgive and heal what’s broken and hidden inside of you? "

Thinking of the possibility of quitting drinking.

Forsaking drunkedness is not just a tag line for a Christian but really, a path to become a more whole and happier person. Everytime, after I drink, I feel a sense of hopelessness and guilt, knowing that I have allowed alcohol to control me instead of the Spirit of God. 

"Putting on the Spirit, rehearsing the good news, exercising self-control, and serving each other within a community of believers are not ways we become less ourselves, but ways in which we rid ourselves of sin — of our old selves — in order to become more of who we were designed to be. In drunkenness, we retreat and surrender to sin inside of us, accepting that broken me is the real me I’ll always be. In the Spirit, we cleanse and advance ourselves with real truth, grace, hope, and joy, not artificial and expiring counterfeits."

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/drunk-you-is-not-the-real-you