During my time in Arua, Uganda, I witnessed the broken homes, the destroyed familys, the heartbroken woman's and the broken men's who had fallen, or been draged down into the pits of alcohol. While the Holy Spirit made it more and more clear for me to see the devistating impact alcohole had on the community, I started to wonder why. Why did God keep revealing this truth over and over again?

During a visit to a local church, before the meeting ended the pastor had some last words; he started talking about alcohol. He said that he earlier in the week read that Uganda was in the top of alcohol consumption in Africa, and that Arua was in the top of consumption in Uganda. He stated the problem but he couldn't follow up with the solution and this bothered me in my spirit; it attached to me, it became like a small nagging stone in my shoe that i couldn't remove.

What bothered me wasn't the pastors lack of a solution, it was my own lack of seeing that i had the solution.

Alcohol is affecting people all around the world, and I'm not an exception; my parents consumed alot of alcohol during my childhood and I myself has been an heavy drinker. And after blacking out due to too much alcohol i always told myself that i would not do that again, I was going to be moderate in my consumption and stop before it got to far; and it worked every time.

Alcohol is without a doubt filled with a cunning spirit, but through Christ we can flush it and prevail. I wasn't able to turn away from alcohol before i turned to Christ, I didn't find peace before He gave it to me; He himself flushed my spirit and replaced it with His spirit and in Him I can stand up and live a sober life.

During the 70s and 80s there was ongoing campaign in Sweden called "Spola kröken" - it roughly translates to "Stop drinking" -, with the purpose of lowering alcohol consumption.