I wanted to see what your thoughts on it is. Would it be okay for a Christian to smoke it?
I am an ex-heavy weed smoker for 7 years and here is what I have to say about it. Off the bat, I would like to say that weed will destroy you mentally, physically, and spiritually. For all the people that just started smoking it for maybe less than a year, they may think its ok...oh its just a little high...a good way to spend leisure time..a little get away from all your problems. But I'll tell you something....each puff of weed in itself is harmless, just like a drop of water is harmless...but every puff adds up and in the end, it will come down on you and smash you into pieces...just like the weight of the entire of body of water that forms the ocean will splatter you...I literally mean this.
Weed starts off as casual and it isnt addictive at first..but after time as you smoke more of it..it starts to become really addictive..you then soon reach the point where a joint becomes a cigarette and you;ll smoke it all around the clock. when you sober up, it doesnt feel right .you dont feel normal being sober.. in the end all you're really doing is tearing up your short term memory capacity. learning becomes a challenge because you just cant remember anything.
Weed makes you slow. your thought processing gets jammed up and you;ll eventually come to the point where you cant even carry a conversation with people because you are not able to recall what the person just said...if you do grasp what they are saying, you still cannot carry a decent conversation because you wont know how to respond to what the person is saying. you just sit there like a pile of useless vegetable while your mind is wondering off into something that absolutely has no relavance to anything the person is talking about or your mind wonders about nothing that even matters about anything. it gets really really bad..I couldnt stress to you how much I would love to take back those years I smoked my life away.
the thing about weed is that...after a long time of smoking it...your tolerance level builds up..what used to be a joint was all you need to get high now requires 2 or 3 joints to get you that same high or even a small taste of that same high...your tolerance continues to build up and eventually weed will no longer have that same high effect.. what happens next? you start to look for a stronger drug to get you away from being sober. Weed is a gateway to other more potent drugs. it gets really bad man..it just does and I wish people would understand this the easy way instead of finding out the hard way.
Now, when it comes to God, weed is absolutely out of the picture. God cannot communicate with you if your mind is not clear and sober. you're body is the temple of God and if you are a follower of Christ, you would do everything you can to not defile your body. The Bible says to stay away from "drunkeness" In other words, the Bible is telling us to keep our minds CLEAR and SOBER.
The other part I wanted to mention is...smoking weed over time becomes a bondage. you are tied and hooked to smoking it and your body feens for it. anything that is addicting causes you to become a slave to that object...in which case this object becomes an idol.
1st commandment says, "thou shall have no other gods before Me"
If you let something come before God then you have made this object of idolatry your own god. the addiction to weed is a violation of the 1st commandment. I also think the same applies to cigarettes but some people may not agree with me.
I really hope that those smoking weed at the moment would reconsider what they are doing.. Weed and God does not mix..it just doesn't
