Another way to look at shortcomings, sins, and flaws in our character as human beings, is to find out what does the Bible say versus mankind's attempt to analyze, dissect, and treat our flaws with psychology.
Treatment in the human/carnal way is through counseling, therapy, drugs and accountability to others who have the P.H.D.
Nothing wrong with this, but I have answers to many plagues and misfortunes mankind is hit with. It has absolutely nothing to do with therapy or counseling.
It is all a spiritual matter.
Yes, spiritual.
Go all the way back in your Rocky and Bullwinkle “way back” machine and you will find in the beginning of the end of mankind. It is found in the Holy Bible.
Adam and Eve. Walking with God in paradise. All was well. The hidden gem, so to speak, in all this was Satan. Piece of coal, not a diamond. He would never be for sure.
He tempted them both and they gained some wisdom from their sin.
Like Satan, they bought the lie from the father of lies.
Eat and you will be like God.
Well, now you know the rest of the story.
So, when a child, man or woman faces trauma, they seek help eventually. This is after they all ate of the fruit of knowledge, which cost them their paradise too.
Human defects.
Everything that besets mankind is found in the Bible.
Not only is it found, but there is also a cure for it all.
Jealousy, envy, hostility, anger, lust, greed, murder, homosexuality, hatred, prejudice, divorce, and the list goes on.
Unthankful, unholy, no gratitude, selfishness, and the like.
All the above stems from disobedience. Not doing what God intended for us to do.
Sin entered the world, and it is alive and thriving.
Insanity, devil possession (it too is in the Bible), malice, war, sickness, disease, starvation and many more, are all linked to sin.
Yes, sin.
Sin separates us from God, but there is a way out.
This way out is at the end of this writing.
We, as humans, fall short of our own expectations.
Keep God out of this for a moment.
We learned early on that we could not measure up to our own personal goals and dreams. Our dreams of a good life turned into nightmares because of sin.
Not always our sin. The sins of those who perpetrated their selfishness upon us and took advantage of us in some sin event.
Sin is rebellion. Rebellion against God.
Yes, God is back now, and He hates sin and rebellion against Him. He is the Judge and Jury.
Our rebellion against Him hurts Him.
The world, including Hollywood, has watered down sin.
Movies, Netflix and even Hallmark promote sin. Homosexuality plastered across out Dish Network. Violence, murder, rape, incest, bestiality, and so on has made its way to our living rooms.
Back in my era of the sixties and so on, if you even saw a bra on television, without the woman, it was PG rated at the least.
Now, we can’t as a nation under God, define exactly what a woman is. Pronouns?
Give me a break.
We, as a nation and as individuals, have missed the mark regarding God’s standards of behavior.
Now God has an answer to all of this.
Paul wrote:
“For all have sinned and fallen short of God’s glorious standard. Yet now, God in His grace and kindness, and His love, declares us NOT GUILTY. He has done all of this through Christ Jesus His Son. Jesus freed us by taking away our sins.”
Romans 3:23.
Our acquittal is not based on our good deeds. It is based on our faith.
So, we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law. Romans 3:27-28.
It is like being in a courtroom. You and I know we are guilty of the crime. The prosecutor (Satan) has all the evidence he needs.
Not circumstantial, but clear, DNA included proof of our crimes.
Pictures of our sin. Jesus (our Attorney, and God the Father, the ultimate Judge, sits in the courtroom).
Our defense attorney, Jesus, pleads our case, and does try to lessen our ultimate sentence.
He talks about how we did not mean to do what we did in our crime. He points out our weaknesses and our abuse to our souls.
He goes on to advocate for our sentence that is coming, to be less harsh.
Facts are facts and the devil is laughing under his stinky breath and soot on his burned suit.
Then, like Adam and Eve, you start to feel remorse for your crime.
In your broken heart and wicked heart, you feel guilty for your crimes.
This moment of resignation of the facts in your case, and the resigning to the reality that you can’t do a life sentence, and you wished you had a second chance.
The gas chamber or lethal injection waiting for you is your reality.
It will not go away on its own.
The Judge leaves the courtroom for a few moments after the facts are laid out.
Jesus sits down by your side and holds your hand.
You look down with tears in your eyes and catch a glimpse of some scars at the bottom of His hand and wrists, just near the long sleeves of His robe.
(I thought only the Judge wore a robe.).
The Judge, The Father, comes back and sits down.
Jesus is still holding your hand.
The Father calls Jesus to the stand and whispers to His Son:
“Is your client in remorse for what they did yet?
Have they gotten to a place of repentance in their hearts for what they did?”
Jesus says to His Father:
“Yes, they have because they saw my nail scarred hands and realized I was their way out of a life sentence (in HELL).
I didn’t say a word to them or preach a sermon, though I could have.
They figured it out on their own with my nudging of love, without saying a single, solitary word. “
The Judge responds:
“ALL RISE. I have found the defendant NOT GUILTY BY REASON of SANITY. Case closed.”
