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Originally Posted by I follow Jesus  I used this liberty to smoke a long time (quit last Sunday) it is hard! I hope people who saw me feel smoking is not OK based upon Christian liberty, I HATE the idea that anyone would grab a pack based on my foolishness!  |
We sin because we are sinners – we smoke because we want to – though some might follow your example – being free to do something means no on held a gun to their head to be stupid.
My husband imitated his father in smoking cigars – but when he did, he’d been through law school; his decision was not one from ignorance, but desire.
I picked up cigarettes because that’s what “everybody” did
five decades ago. In quick order, tobacco became a friend – supplanting what God could have done had I been a Christian. It took me nine months to reach a point I really meant I wasn’t gonna light another one – that’s because I was surrounded by smokers – and it was still socially OK to smoke. Mercifully He enabled me to quit about ten years before He saved me – by planting in my mind the idea I just wouldn’t pick up the next cigarette – To this day I don’t like to say I quit smoking, I like to think – I am just not gonna light up now. And to this day – though not so frequently – I have smoking dreams – I have lit up and am oh so enjoying the little tobacco torch – and everybody is tsk-tsking – and I am so annoyed they don’t believe I can give it up again.
I chewed gum and kept center most in my mind what a friend told me –when I was smoking - I smelled like dirty sox.
That’s what motivated me!
(And the knowledge cancer of the lungs and TB ran in my family.)
Psalm 119:65-75 has been a great help.