scheme to avoid it. Yet in the deep mental and physical pain of humiliation before a brother we experience our rescue and salvation.2 When we fear people more than God, we fall into a deadly snare. But few things slay cowardice and pride like sitting down with a trusted believer and saying, “Here is what I have done; please pray for me and remind me of God’s promises.” As drunkenness disorients the body, sin disorients the soul. When people are drunk, they behave