Can trusting God neutralize anger, bitterness, anxiety and depression? Look at all that’s happening around the world with wars, natural disasters, political hatred. Is there any healthy way to deal with all our stress, anger, and frustrations? Alcoholism, drug addiction, depression and suicide are at an all time high and climbing, while online bullying is becoming the norm for soccer moms and high schoolers. People are searching for new paths that might lead to peace and purpose, but they are unwilling to try a simple straight path that is easy to find but it requires trusting a loving God for direction.
Psalm 28:7
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him.
Trusting God requires submitting to His truth for getting on the right path that leads to mental health in broken world. We live in a world that denies God’s absolute truth, and then wonders why there is so much evil in the world. What would happen in our lives as believers if we would, not only trust in the Lord, but trust in the Lord with all our hearts? So, how do we let go of our need to control our own live? I think it starts with a humble heart that trusts God’s word more than our own understanding of the world around us. That leads us finding the right path for being emotionally, spiritually, and relationally whole.
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Most people don’t grow up thinking, I want to be meek when I grow up. Why is that? It starts with not understanding two words in Matthew 5:5 (Blessed & Meek). Blessed means, on the right path, and to be meek means, to have great strength that is under control, like a powerful stallion who is controlled by the reins. We will be on the right path that leads to God’s inheritance if we put our strength under God’s headship, instead of putting our weight down on our own understanding. Trusting God leads to mental, social, and emotional health.
What is the Holy Spirit saying to you through these scriptures?