“How are you getting home tonight?” begins the advertisement in our local paper, The Northland Age, Tuesday, July 26, 2016. That is a question and questions need to be answered.

Underneath the question is not only a picture of a police car, but also of an ambulance and a fire engine. Right at the bottom of the ad is written, “If you’re out and having a few drinks, make sure you’ve got a sober driver to get you home safely.”

A couple of pages before in the same paper I find the article called, “Kiwis in denial about harm our alcohol culture is doing.” A Professor of Otago University Preventative and Social Medicine says, “‘New Zealanders are too tolerant of risks created by heavy drinking.'”

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What does God have to say about liquor indulgence? Proverbs 20:1: “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.” In God’s estimation only fools consume liquor.

Abraham Lincoln was a great man and this is what he has said about liquor: “A cancer in human society, eating out its vitals and threatening its destruction.”

Coming back to the question at the beginning. I know how I am getting home if I am out in the evening. I am driving my own car, because I am sober.