創世記9:18-29

9:18 出方舟挪亞的兒子就是閃、含、雅弗。含是迦南的父親。
9:19 這是挪亞的三個兒子，他們的後裔分散在全地。
9:20 挪亞作起農夫來，栽了一個葡萄園。
9:21 他喝了園中的酒便醉了，在帳棚裡赤著身子。
9:22 迦南的父親含看見他父親赤身，就到外邊告訴他兩個弟兄。
9:23 於是閃和雅弗拿件衣服搭在肩上，倒退著進去，給他父親蓋上；他們背著臉就看不見父親的赤身。
9:24 挪亞醒了酒，知道小兒子向他所做的事，
9:25 就說：迦南當受咒詛，必給他弟兄作奴僕的奴僕；
9:26 又說：耶和華─閃的上帝是應當稱頌的！願迦南作閃的奴僕。
9:27 願上帝使雅弗擴張，使他住在閃的帳棚裡；又願迦南作他的奴僕。
9:28 洪水以後，挪亞又活了三百五十年。
9:29 挪亞共活了九百五十歲就死了。

¹⁸ The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) ¹⁹ These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.

²⁰ Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded^[a] to plant a vineyard. ²¹ When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. ²² Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. ²³ But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.

²⁴ When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, ²⁵ he said,

“Cursed be Canaan!
    The lowest of slaves
    will he be to his brothers.”

²⁶ He also said,

“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem!
    May Canaan be the slave of Shem.
²⁷ May God extend Japheth’s^[b] territory;
    may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,
    and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”

²⁸ After the flood Noah lived 350 years. ²⁹ Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.

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    挪亞因為喝酒就惹出一些問題，使我們感覺到底是酒的問題還是人的問題呢？是否要讓我們覺得酒是不好的？因為上帝不讓祭司和拿細耳人接觸酒，以免誤事，或是得罪上帝。

    說到酒或是其他的麻醉藥物，讓人想到人因為自己的軟弱，而逃避一些自己認為無法承擔的事情，於是藉由麻醉讓自己忘記自己要面對的困境，安撫自己的情緒，讓人進入放鬆甚至放棄的狀態。這就像鴕鳥躲在沙堆一般，其實是無濟於事的，反而製造更大的問題，這是一種虛假的狀態，是魔鬼對人的挾制與欺騙。

    也因為這樣，我們要靠聖靈所賜勇敢的心，勇於面對問題，運用上帝賜給我們的能力，以及仰望上帝的恩典，來突破困境！我們要相信，上帝既然仍夠夠過耶穌基督的死而復活，始不可能變為可能，上帝也必賜足夠的恩典讓我們面對自己人生的困境，不要逃避與放棄！