Who Has Sorrow?

Song: Near The Cross

Scripture: Proverbs 23:29-35

Who Has Sorrow? Would a smart man exchange his family for the bottle? Surely not! Surely a man who could always explain his children’s Algebra homework better than their teachers, would know better than to let the sparkle of the wine seduce him.

Do good men get caught in the snare of mixed wine and hard liquor? Certainly not! Surely a man who’s good to neighbors, who cries during Little House on the Prairie, who helps his son build a fort in the woods or a dam in the creek—surely such a man knows better.

Would a father trod the path of a drunk? Let it never be! Surely he would not risk their following him on a path of folly. Certainly he would be wary of his influence. Never would a father choose the life of bum on a street for the comfort of his home and the joy of his wife and children.

Do Christians drink? God forbid! Surely a man who searched to find the gospel for his family, who drove them to church, who bought his children bibles, who shed tears when his son was baptized and again when he heard him preach—surely a man like that would not sell his soul for a drink.

Smart men do. Good men do. Fathers do. Christians do. My dad did and he was all of those. Who has sorrow? The drunk man does. And so does his son.

Jason Moore