Now about health: A body badly burned by alcohol does not often recover overnight nor do twisted thinking and depression vanish in a twinkling. We are convinced that a spiritual mode of living is a most powerful health restorative. We, who have recovered from serious drinking, are miracles of mental health. But we have seen remarkable transformations in our bodies. Hardly one of our crowd now shows any mark of dissipation.
But this does not mean that we disregard human health measures. God has abundantly supplied this world with fine doctors, psychologists, and practitioners of various kinds. Do not hesitate to take your health problems to such persons. Most of them give freely of themselves, that their fellows may enjoy sound minds and bodies. Try to remember that though God has wrought miracles among us, we should never belittle a good doctor or psychiatrist. Their services are often indispensable in treating a newcomer and in following his case afterward. (AA, pg 133)
You can be set free from death into life by believing on Him whom the Father has sent (John 6: 29).
Depression has nothing to do with our circumstances and everything to do with ourselves, to the extent that man is a descendant of Adam, dead in his trespasses, with no hope of life unless he receives the gift of no condemnation found in Christ:
"Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." (Romans 8:1, NIV)
No condemnation, no matter what wrong thing you may have done, may do, or may think about doing in the future.
The satisfaction which man seeks, he finds in the grace of God:
"O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days." (Psalm 90: 14)
The starting point of all things, and the end of every matter, is Jesus Christ:
"Jesus saith unto him, I
am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14: 6)
and
"Jesus Christ the same
yesterday, and to day, and for ever." (Hebrews 13: 8)
and
"And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life
freely." (Revelation 21: 6)
But this does not mean that we disregard human health measures. God has abundantly supplied this world with fine doctors, psychologists, and practitioners of various kinds. Do not hesitate to take your health problems to such persons. Most of them give freely of themselves, that their fellows may enjoy sound minds and bodies. Try to remember that though God has wrought miracles among us, we should never belittle a good doctor or psychiatrist. Their services are often indispensable in treating a newcomer and in following his case afterward.
This line of thinking runs contrary to the true and faithful counsel of the Holy Spirit alive in every believer:
"But ye have an
unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things." (1 John2: 20)
and
"But the anointing
which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach
you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is
no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." (1 John 2: 27)
We do not need to run to experts, for Christ is made through God to every one of us "Wisdom" among all other gifts (1 Corinthians 1: 30).
The problem for everyone of us, whether young or old, has nothing to do with how we feel, but what we know, and whether the things we know are so:
"Then said Jesus to
those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye
my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the
truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8: 31-32)
The Truth is based on the Word, Jesus is the Word made flesh, and every verse of the Bible testifies to Jesus Christ, not ourselves, not our feelings, not our limited view on things.
Many of the "therapists" who are supposed to "help" in fact hinder recovery for many "clients" because the very relationship creates an identity of sickness and failure, just like the program of Alcoholics Anonymous. Therapists, oftentimes, tell men and women struggling with alcohol to go to meetings, which causes them to drink more of the very poison which leads people to drink: too much self, nothing but self, and self identified with lies instead of the truth.
No therapist is need but the Truth that sets us free, and if the Son sets you free, then you are free indeed (John 8:36)
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