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The Attacks 3 – Drug Addiction
The process that Satan uses to bring about drug addiction is very similar to the slippery slope of alcoholism. The innocuous bait, the peer pressure – and so it begins, probably with something “soft”, but nonetheless addictive.
I can remember on several occasions in the early 80′s spending evenings in the company of 4 or 5 males, all stoned out of their minds with pot, listening to music – Springsteen, Clapton, Dylan and the like. I loved the music (another bait, in this case). But the peer pressure was enormous – not only in the obvious sense, either - guys stoned out of their brains are not the most scintillating company if you are stone-cold sober.
Drug Addiction
I’d read Huxley’s “Doors of Perception: Heaven and Hell”. I was a seeker and a so-called but lukewarm Christian. It was a blessing for me that I had never smoked in my life. Along with my job as a lawyer, that was ostensibly what saved me: I have to admit being Christian never even entered into the equation then, whereas now it would be the first consideration. But I am truly grateful those other safeguards had already been put in place on my behalf, when the time came to meet this challenge. I finally made an escape, and often look back with gratitude to the Hand that guided me, like a babe in the wood, through this minefield.
I wish others could be as fortunate. Especially the young people of today, when the pressures are so much heavier, and the available drugs so destructive.
Like the alcoholic, the drug addict is seeking the “high”, the “ultimate experience”. This is all an illusion – every artificial chemical has disastrous effects on the human system, and if you doubt me, click the following link for a neurosurgeon’s revelations on the effects of chemical taste-enhancers on the human brain.
The only real, enduring “high” is to be found in turning to the supreme power of the universe and letting Him lead you to find His peace, joy AND POWER in your life, now and forever. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11.
Go the alternative route, and the chemicals take their toll, requiring ever higher doses of an ever stonger “fix” to do their counterfeit work. Meanwhile. the devil runs his destruction rampant through brain, body, mind, soul and lives.
Find your Peace.
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The Attacks – 5: Child Abuse
Mentally, this was by far the hardest of this series of drawings to do. I kept putting it off because even to think of it was so upsetting, let alone commit an image to paper.
Sadly, New Zealand – the country we used to fondly call “Godzone” – now has one of the highest rates of child abuse in the world. Over the last few years we have seen a distressing number of appalling cases of infant and toddler death following often lengthy abuse, come before the courts. In most cases parents and/or family members are found guilty. I knew this image had to be done.
Child Abuse
It is unbelievable that individuals should contemplate, let alone carry out, these horrific criminal assaults. This is one of the ugliest examples of the devil’s work in this world.
The Lord loved children especially, and He didn’t mince words when describing their importance to Him:
He called a little child and had him stand among them. And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
“And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.”
Matthew 18:2-6
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