Have you ever made an impulsive, reckless, hard-working,

harmful decision, something that couldn't be undone, no matter how much we regretted it?

What does God do with our messes?

Well today on Truth For Life, Alistair Begg looks at how a king's foolish decision

left him without his beautiful queen, and yet God still used the king's error to further

his own plans.

Verse 7 of Esther 7, and the king arose in his wrath from the wine drinking.

He arose in his wrath from the wine drinking.

Now there was the right to want us to understand that there is a correlation here between his

intake and his output.

What he's taken into himself is in some way influencing what is coming out of him.

It's not our purpose to stop here and give a dissertation on the uses and abuses of

alcohol and the way in which he's addressed in the Bible, but let me just say a couple

of things in passing.

Number 1, wine is the principle drink that is mentioned in the Bible.

So when you read the Old Testament, an evidence of God's blessing is found in the production

of grain, of wine, and of oil.

At the same time, the Bible warns that when taken to excess, it can lead men and women

astray, Proverbs chapter 20 and verse 1.

And when you move from the Old Testament into the new, you find that, for example, the

Apostle Paul, while he encourages Timothy to drink wine for his stomach's sake, warns

the Ephesians against becoming deborched as a result of their imbibing of too much wine.

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