Let me remind and encourage you again: God is sovereign; you and I aren't. This isn't just theology we should proclaim on Sunday; it must be the foundation of our identity every day of the week. God is in absolute control, and he's infinitely good.
Human relationships are unable to provide us with life, contentment, happiness, and joy, so when we ask them to be our source of identity, it's only a matter of time before they fail us.
We can never be reminded of this enough: our identity is only safe in one Person - Jesus Christ!
She’s the most gorgeous woman God has ever put on planet Earth!
She’s a wonderful mom, and the most incredible wife I could’ve asked for.
Her love, steadfastness, beauty, and character are just a few of her amazing qualities. I can’t believe I get to be married to her.
Is mental health biblical?
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Well, here are the two extremes that you want to avoid. The culture, because it doesn't believe in the heart in the way the Scripture defines it. The heart is the center of your emotions, your mind, your will. The heart is the causal core, it's the directional system of a human being. Since the world doesn't believe that, the world tends to biologize everything. Everything is biological or physical. That's an unbiblical view of a human being.
The other extreme is in the church, and it's a tendency for us to spiritualize everything; every dysfunction is somehow a sin issue. And neither one of those two extremes are biblical. The biblical view is I'm a duality. I'm a spiritual and a physical being. The language that is more current is, “I'm an embodied soul.” So, there is dysfunction of soul and dysfunction of body.
For example, I was looking yesterday at an antibiotic, and one of the side effects of this antibiotic, this is very interesting to me, is anxiety. It's not an anxiety that's a failure of hope in God. It's an anxiety that is physiological-induced by a medication that causes you to be unable to deal with the things emotionally that you could normally deal with.
Now, that is a mental health issue. Does it become a heart issue? Sure, it does because everything is a heart issue because the heart is the control center. In the midst of that experience, I could get angry at God; I could doubt His goodness. All kinds of things can happen, but it's not first a spiritual issue.
I had a counseling experience with a guy who had a huge personality change, became a very angry man, and we discovered it was a result of an accident that affected the limbic area of his brain that was swollen. They call that the ‘rage center’ of the brain. He got medication and was fine. By then, his church had already disciplined him for a sin against his wife and family. I heard what was going on; I immediately sent him to a major hospital for a multidiscipline examination, and they found out what was wrong with him.
So, we can't deny the body, and we can't deny the soul. We have to have a category for things, whether you call them mental health or whatever, we have to have a category for body dysfunction that creates behavioral thought-emotion difficulty. And that needs to be part of a Christian worldview; it needs to be part of a system of Christian biblical counseling.
There are body issues. There are mental dysfunctions. We know that there are people who don't process well. Dyslexia is a mental processing issue. ADHD is a distractibility mental processing issue. So, we've got to have a category that remembers that God not only created souls; we're not disembodied souls, but we have bodies. And the fall didn't just affect the heart and the soul. The fall affected the body as well.
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Biblical masculinity is not loud, aggressive, or self-centered.
It is a humble, repentant man quietly taking responsibility before God when no one is watching.
@readswithravi Bobby Knight said, "My definition of discipline: Do what has to be done, when it has to be done, as well as it can be done - and do it that way all the time."
Discipline is not a moment - it's something you choose for yourself.
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