Read Proverbs 23:29 & 30  This talks about a subject that you are way too young to even think about. Drinking alcohol and wine.  The dangerous ingredient in beer and wine and liquor is alcohol.  When a fruity juice like grape juice is not refrigerated, and it sits outside in the open, it ferments.  When the juice ferments, bacteria is actually causing it to rot and turn into alcohol.  Alcohol is the dangerous part of the drink.  Our first verse tells us that bad things happen to someone, who in the next verse drinks wine.  What happens to them?  They have trouble.  They pick arguments with their friends and fight.  They can't talk clearly.  When they drink alcohol, they pass out and wake up the next morning with cuts and bruises on their bodies.  But they don't even know where the bruises came from.  That doesn't sound like very much fun.  So why do people drink alcohol?  Well alcohol makes their brain feel fuzzy.  They like the buzzing feeling in their heads.  But there are many more troubles that come after that feeling.  Another problem with alcohol is that it is addictive.  Addictive means that something in our brain makes us want to do it over and over again.  Someone may like the warm feeling that first comes with drinking alcohol, but they don't like the terrible other things that come along after the warm feeling is gone.  Solomon knows what happens if just begin with a taste of alcohol.  We get trapped.  We want more and more. But verse 31 has the solution:  just never take the first drink of alcohol.  I like what Solomon says about alcohol in verse 32.  He says that it bites you like a snake!  Leave it alone!  Stay away from it!