There is an interesting and stark contrast drawn in 1 Thessalonians 5 between the children of God and the children of the world. Children of God “are not in darkness,” but are “sons of light and sons of the day…not of the night nor of darkness” (5:4-5). Children of the world are “in darkness” and are “of the night” (5:4-5). Jesus said, “Everyone practicing evil [loved darkness and] hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed” (John 3:19-20). Interestingly, the Bible depicts “getting drunk” as something that individuals do “at night” (1 Thess. 5:7). Combining Jesus’ words with Paul’s words, one reason that “getting drunk” happens at night is “lest [the] deeds should be exposed.” It’s easier to hide it at night.
What do you surmise, then, is God’s evaluation of the use of alcohol, seeing that He includes it in a passage filled with such vivid contrasts: light and darkness, day and night, watching and sleeping, peace and destruction, salvation and wrath, being sober and getting drunk? It is hard to argue in favor of drinking when God places the matter in such a context of derision.