Just about every weekend in Acadiana (south central Louisiana), you can find some sort of local festival or party where people can go to eat, drink and be merry. If there is not one planned, the people here will find some reason to celebrate and party anyway.

Sounds like a fun place to live, doesn’t it? I guess that depends on who you are trying to please; your own fleshly appetites and pleasures, or, the pleasure of God, your Creator. Just because there is usually a religious service or ritual that goes along with these activities, giving the “church” blessing, does not mean that God is pleased.

Oh, God doesn’t have anything against us having a good time, does He? Well, let’s look at what Jesus and the Bible have to say about this Cajun, party spirit that seems to prevail in this area called Acadiana in which we live.

“And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?”  (Luke 12:19-20)

God tells us exactly what He thinks of anyone with this eat, drink and party attitude. He calls them fools. The Word of God is also clear that anyone who continues in drunkenness, gluttony or boisterous merry-making and festivities (revelling), without repentance and change, can never expect to inherit eternal life.

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.”  (Galatians 5:19-21)

“The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.”  (Romans 13:12-14)