God warns us to stay away from dangerous actions. Just as we warn children to stay away from stoves and busy streets. God's warning are to change the direction of our lives, to deliver us from Satan's temptations, and to direct us into the design of His Word.
Our sins do not appear ugly to us, and the "lovely" sins are hardest to avoid. They come to us in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are like ravening wolves. We must beware of false prophets. Sin's temptations are real and is trying us always to get us to do things his way rather than God's way.
Smoking and alcohol and other vices are the ones destroying our bodies. Sometimes, having diagnosed with catastrophic diseases like liver and lung cancer are the result of man's disobedience to the warnings of God. In the book of Galatians God warns us this : "what you sow you shall reap." It is a great sin if we do not take good care of our bodies especially if we are ill yet we don't go for a check up with a doctor, but it is more of greater sin if we destroy our body by smoking and drinking alcohol and taking drugs. We may not be aware but it may be just the same as suicide or self-kill!
Where will you spend your eternity: In a smoking or nonsmoking area? Sin will find one out of eternity. God is calling out His people out of this world. "Love not the world neither the things that are in this world." (1 John 2:15). Families were broken and children were left orphan due to loss of parents. It's not yet late...never late to ignore God's warnings.
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