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| 2 Timothy 1:7(RSV) For God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control. | ||||||||||||||||||
| In today's society and in yesterday's society the standards of acceptable behavior are set by common behavior of the people of that society. Any other behavior is considered abnormal or unacceptable.� America, is a conglomerate of societies in which in customs, rituals and traditions vary from one class of people to the next from one race of people to the next. Religions, throughout America vary in a wide range of beliefs and acceptable behavior. Acceptable, behavior and unacceptable behavior will vary from one country to the next country than one city to the next city from one county to the next county from downtown and family to family. Truly, whatever traditions, or behavior that a person is conditioned to understand throughout life is how they will perceive life and function accordingly. | ||||||||||||||||||
| A good example of this is marriage and divorce. In today's society, the solution to marital difficulties even when children are involved is: "if it doesn't work out well I guess is time to start over."� And a result of this behavior leaves children without parents to be raised by either a single parent or a relative or stranger. Another example of acceptable behavior is homosexuality, instead of a homosexuality being considered a possible emotional disturbance that results in rejecting the need for an intimate relationship with a member of the opposite sex, the homosexual is considered normal by choice. Or, a form of blame shifting for this condition is "God created me this way" here we go blaming God for our failures to be able to fulfill his plan for our lives. People that commit adultery often times will blame God for this act of infidelity, disloyalty, and self-indulgent pride. Many times, usually by men, in order to justify their am immorality, fornication and adultery often this statement is said: "If God did not create me this way then I would not have these desires." Now that's about as big a lie can get that's like saying flesh an engineer built a fireplace in order to burn down the house, that if the fireplace wasn't in the house then the fire could get started. Imagine that that's about like saying if you don't build a house it won't burn down. Factor the matter is that God has created each and every individual with a furnace that was designed for a good and useful purpose that was derived to bring pleasure only in one area. A fool would try to use his fireplace to warm all of the houses on one block. Since it wasn't designed for that purpose and is only designed to warm one house you would have to overload the furnace until it probably would blow-up and burn down the house. Moreover, the furnace would not be able to warm all the other houses it was not designed to heat. God made man and woman for the sole purpose be joined together and become one flesh. One flesh means just that, one-woman one-man come together and joins their bodies and hearts together intimately and the result of this is the birth of a child, which is in fact one-flesh from the flesh of a man and a woman. For this reason, in order for a human being to properly develop into adulthood, the child must remain in union with both his father and mother for all of the years of development, adolescence, and young adulthood, until in such a day in which the child becomes an adult, and then begins his or her own family.� Most likely that young parent will develop their children in the same manner in which he or she was raised. | ||||||||||||||||||
| The reason adultery fornication and immorality should be abhorred is because of the emotional destruction that it brings not only to the adults involved. Even worse the children are cut off from a natural relationship of which the Bible calls one flesh. Their flesh becomes divided as well and so confusion and emotional and physical damage is done in whenever to parents divide a marriage and try to rebuild the marriage using any stranger to reconcile a union between the three people. This is same as putting a square peg in a round hole and expecting it to fill all of the space. It is possible to fit a square peg in a round hole but there will still remain into spots. The result, instead of strength and unity being achieved the void creates weakness and unfulment. That is why Of all things homosexuality is an absolute defiance of God's immaculate plan for man and woman to become one flesh and one-person. And homosexual cannot procreate with a person of his or her own sex.� Therefore, God couldn't possibly have anything to do with this type of behavior, as part of his plan. Instead, God makes very clear that even when man finds certain traditions and other behavior acceptable they're not by any means, healthy either physically or emotionally for any person that practices things that society would call acceptable and the word of God calls an abomination. | ||||||||||||||||||
| The truth is that an abomination to God is and anything that God has created has not fulfilled its created purpose. Sickness and disease in humans? plants or animals are abominations to God. Theft, murder, war, famine, deception, selfishness, thanklessness, obstinateness, hate, envy, strife, unforgiveness, manipulation, lying, cheating, bitterness, unforgiveness, sorcery, intoxication, witchcraft, confusion, cowardice, paranoia, acts of immorality, adultery, fornication, pornography, and thoughts that dwell on these things are all abominations to God. None of these things will not, and cannot be a part of Heaven here on Earth or for eternity as well.� Therefore, any thing that is contrary to the nature of God including pestilence, pollution, and all things that alter the manner in which God has given them to us from creation, are all abominations to God. | ||||||||||||||||||
| God has given us the power to be able to put everything in the proper order after which he created it to be. ****** | ||||||||||||||||||
| �I am not a psychologist, I believe the science of psychology which is the study of behavioral habits of people can be useful to some degree when the word of God is applied has an absolute means of understanding.� The problem with modern psychiatry and psychology is the lack of the God factor as being the solution to the problem in which a person is emotionally bound up by. On the other end attempting to apply only certain parts of the Bible God given understanding of Godly behavior, also produces disastrous results in which we read about all the time.� | ||||||||||||||||||
| Since God, created man in his own image and his own likeness, is understandable that one could study the nature and habits of God through Jesus Christ and understand the possibility of having ability to overcome any trial, tribulation, misunderstanding, or any other battle that comes against the human mind. | ||||||||||||||||||
| The psychologist or psychiatrist that knows little of the things of God cannot of me of any real help to his or her patients. I can say this would complete competence knowing that God is a God that gives wisdom liberally to anyone that will ask him in faith. When God is ruled out of the picture then failure is on the way. | ||||||||||||||||||
| A psychiatrist understands physiological and the results of chemical imbalance in the brain which causes many neurological disorders.� They even have many wonderful drugs that can give some relief and stability to these disorders in, which will help a person to be able cope with the mental illness. However, many these drugs have dangerous side effects. So, the decision is a tradeoff of the loss of physical health in order to gain a better mental stability. | ||||||||||||||||||
| The truth is that drugs themselves are drugs in is that simple. Whether the drug is for chronic depression schizophrenia psychosis and other mental illnesses such as manic depression and so one, they all have one thing; they alter a person's sense of being to hopefully give them a better outlook on life. Thus, and ability to cope with life's everyday problems. And any in no way am I telling people not to use drugs in order to meet deal with her situation in fact the drugs may be useful in giving a person and wider scope of understanding of biblical truths. | ||||||||||||||||||
| The schizophrenic without the aid of medication cannot possibly comprehend and understand the will power that is necessary and available to them to overcome their illness.� The manic depressive spend so much time in confusion that it's almost impossible for them to gather and rationally understand the things of God without the aid of medication. Yet, the adverse hand that was dealt to them has convinced them that for some reason God was punishing them for sins they have committed or that someone else had committed against them.� The root of all this is unforgiveness and bitterness. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Depression however is a more unique situation because he can strike even the very best behaved person and the most devout Christian without any sin involved. Depression is a result of loss of hope. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hebrews 11:1now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.� | ||||||||||||||||||
| According to the Scripture there faith is a substance, a substance is something that can be touched, handled, seen, felt, or recognized. Faith is a tangible object in which a person can hold onto providing they have established a hope for something.� Evidence, is proof that something exists or is manifested. The most important word in this scripture is then word "NOW" This literally means now no waiting and is describes the being of faith. The second most important word is ?IS?. Is describes the being of "now faith" or faith is present as a tangible object of hope or the things hoped for.� | ||||||||||||||||||
| �Without hope it is not possible to have faith but instead fear takes over hopelessness is depression. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lets take a probe into clinical depression, the most common illness in America.� Coping with depression too often results in even worse self-destructive behavior.� For example when I was very young the age of 28 and have already been married seven years and having a three-year-old son I was divorced separate in both my wife and son.� So instead of returning to church family and God I began to cope with a depression by the use of recreational drugs and alcohol. Even worse, I thought by getting girlfriends that it would help me to rapidly recover from the shock of divorce and achieve peace and happiness in the situation at hand.� Instead I fooled myself into believing a lie straight from hell that can only lead to self-destructive behavior. Moreover, the devil is behind these and all lies, He certainly doesn?t want you or I to have a wholesome and fulfilled life. His strategy is to completely degrade and dehumanize every single human being on the face of the earth.� Satan, is the epitome of evil. He is in fact the very lack of the presence of God. The Bible says, | ||||||||||||||||||
| John 8:44� You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it. | ||||||||||||||||||
| "Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change."James 1:17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Young people being raised up in an environment of immoral behavior in which children fall victim to the pray of sexual perverts and possible drug abuse and crime. Depression in itself is the total loss of hope. Once a person has lost hope faith becomes impossible to achieve. | ||||||||||||||||||
| When I have gone through a depression it was usually in time when many trials and tribulations and troubles follow after me like a flood. The three stages of depression for starts like this: | ||||||||||||||||||
| Problems that crop up without warning and immediate solution.�� When this happens and there is not an apparent way to overcome the problem, worry begins to take over the thoughts in your mind until the problem gets bigger and bigger and the solution gets smaller and smaller and farther away. Eventually, the problem becomes bigger than life and hope rapidly deteriorates. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Making bad choices in order to resolve the problem, which results in more problems.� This is a critical point going into a depression in which recovery can be very long road. Now because it has become a tangled confusing situation in which in many cases damage done cannot be undone or repaired. So then self-pity and shifting the blame or denial becomes a very willing solution. However, the biggest problem of all is pride. Proud persons that boast of themselves or of the things in this world are subject to chronic depression and emotional, dysfunctional lifestyle.� Most dysfunctional persons will easily find fault in others bur will rarely admit to his or her own faults. Many times they wont even know they are dysfunctional until it get really bad or some times too late. In reality, it is only too late if you die. | ||||||||||||||||||
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