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Are You Out of Order?

by Jeff Drinnan
06/11/18
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Bi Polar, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Substance Abuse Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and other disorders – are all labels arbitrarily put on people by modern psychology. Maybe these psychobabble believers could combine them all and just put an “out of order” sign on people.

These labels trap people into assigned behavior that they are sentenced to for life. They are a caste system, where once you are in a particular place in life you are stuck there. There is no room for change. By the modern psyche standard, if you sprain your leg, then you are stuck with a sprained leg the rest of your life. May as well tell someone who sprains a leg that he has sprained leg disorder.

People can be changed. Human problems are rooted in sin, which drives bad choices in life. If you get right with God and walk in his ways, you’ll be changed into the way God created you. Dysfunctionality happens when we stray from God’s ways. The Bible is sufficient to handle all human problems of the heart. The holy spirit gives you the power to restore your mental health.

In his book “How to Help People Change”, Biblical Counseling movement founder Jay E Adams lists four steps: Teaching, Conviction, Correction, and Disciplined Training in Righteousness. First, you must learn the right Biblical principle, be convicted if your behavior does not match the Biblical standard, then repent of your sin and God will forgive you. You don’t stop there but start practicing righteousness – behavior that pleases God.

So-called bi polar disorder is a spiritual problem and the way you are brought up fosters this problem.

Among the folks who go to the community meals for the homeless and those in need over the years in Bucks County, PA, I’ve found that people who have problems who have attended the secular Penndel Mental Health Center, with its legal dope and psychobabble tended to get worse, whereas those who found Biblical counsel did much better.

In Levittown, PA, churches run meetings with Biblical solutions for personal problems, such as drug addiction. At a recent meeting held at Oxford Valley Chapel, modern psychology labels were refuted as being pagan, which does not help people.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
    I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
 Do not be like the horse or the mule,
    which have no understanding
but must be controlled by bit and bridle
    or they will not come to you.
Many are the woes of the wicked,
    but the Lord’s unfailing love
    surrounds the one who trusts in him.
 Rejoice in the Lord and be glad, you righteous;
    sing, all you who are upright in heart!
-Psalm 32: 8-11