COMMENTARY: Why is There so much talk about mental health?

WHY IS THERE SO MUCH TALK ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH?

……by Yves Ephraim 

Psalm 32:2 reads: “Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.”

In this context, the term “blessed” denotes a sense of well being or a state of no negative stress. 

A blessed man or woman has no negative “stress” because the Lord affirms that your inward world is congruent with your reality and outward behaviour.

This is why if your are “blessed” the Lord does not impute iniquity for the Lord knows that there is no guile or “deceit” in your heart.  

No human can see your inner heart, but the Lord can. The Lord knows when you are pretending to be one way on the outside while being the total opposite on the inside. The Bible uses all sorts of words to describe this state of self-conflict: deceit; feign; dissemble; lying vanities; hypocrisy, etc.

When your inner heart and thinking are in sync with your outer behaviour, we say that you are a man or woman of integrity. In other words both your inner and outer worlds match.

There is so much concern today about “mental health” but if you examine the root cause of this, we can attribute this to many people today trying to live a lie: we pretend in the presence of others to be what we are truly not and thereby create inner conflict and stress within ourselves.

This self-conflict creates unhappiness. 

Many of you cannot experience true contentment and “blessedness” because you refuse to fear God and fail to do what he says, but rather choose to live the life that the world says you should live which brings about outcomes that do not match your own expectations.

For example, the world makes you feel that entertainment is a goal you should seek, but even after all the reveling and social media scrolling, you are still not satisfied, you still feel empty and unfulfilled.

The more our society attempts to remove God from our consciousness, the deeper in moral morass and trouble we get.

Do you crave being among those who are “blessed”?

Perhaps you need to turn to God?

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