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By Movieguide® Staff
Priscilla Shirer and son JC recently sat down for a frank conversation about alcohol and how easy it can be to forget the promises we make to God.
“I think that’s huge for me,” JC said during an episode of the “Full Fledged” podcast. “Remembering…remembering God has done this, done this, and remembering how big of a deal it was then.”
He explained that, once you’re “removed” from a bad situation, “You forget all the emotions that were attached and how hard it was going through it or whatever. You just remember, ‘Oh yeah, God helped me with that situation.’”
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JC then shared a personal story about a time he drank alcohol from an unmarked bottle that quickly incapacitated him.
“I mean he could not function. It was terrible,” Priscilla shared. “You were blacked out, basically.”
JC recalled how, when you’re in a hard or uncomfortable situation like that, it’s easy to promise God, “I’m never going to drink again…This is horrible. If you get me out of this and I get out alive, I promise you, I make a promise. I’m never going to drink again.”
“It gets to like three weeks later and you forget how bad it felt to be drunk and you’re like, ‘A couple sips couldn’t hurt again.’ It’s the same thing that happens in regular life,” he explained. “We will be drunk in the situation that we’re in and feel all the emotions, feel all the bad stuff, whatever and then get over the hangover and be like, ‘Oh, maybe I can go through it again if it’s worth it,’ and then try it again and do that over and over and over again.”
Priscilla added, “We do have to recall what did not serve me then. What actually didn’t produce Christ-likeness in me? What made me sick in my physical body or my emotions or my mind, my spirit? What was not exemplifying maturity in this way?”
Actor Neal McDonough has also spoken about his decision to stop drinking and how it strengthened his relationship with God.
“When I gave up drinking, I started to actually like me again,” he told Fox News. “I forgot how blessed I am and all the gifts that God has given to me.”
Rock star Alice Cooper made similar comments, telling Pastor Greg Laurie that “God literally took [my addictions] away from me” following a stint in rehab.
“People say, ‘You’re a cured alcoholic.’ And I go, ‘No, I was a healed alcoholic.’ God took it away from me,” he explained. “Even the doctor said, ‘It’s impossible that you don’t at least fall of the wagon at least three or four times because you’re the classic alcoholic.’ And I said is ‘What you don’t understand is God took it away from me…It’s a miracle.’”
JC and Priscilla’s recent conversation is a reminder to stay away from the things that do not serve us and to remember the promises we make to God.
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