Mental Health Awareness Month

     So we are wrapping up the month of May, Mental Health Awareness month.  It seems like a cruel joke.  It is like sticking a band aid on a cancer patient.  Why is Mental Health Awareness becoming more popular?  According to Pastor John MacArthur, transgender people are 19 times as likely to commit suicide.  Secular sources sources claim that LGBTQ students are 4 times as likely to commit suicide. What are students being told?  They are NOT being told that God can deliver them from sexual addictions.  The are being told that they were born that way.  So if they were born that way and it is not a matter of choice, then there is no way out of their unhappy "life style".  Rather than continue living in bondage with no cure in sight, some kids decide to end their life.

     Why are we afraid to tell people that God can heal their mind?  Christians are falsely blamed for the mental illness of others.  If we speak up, we are called homophobic, transphobic, intolerant, haters and the list goes on.  Sometimes we just want to be left alone and live our lives in peace.  Our culture wants to force us to accept their beliefs.  If we don't accept their beliefs, they threaten to "cancel" us, destroy our reputation and ruin our lives.  We say, "just leave the kids alone."  They say they are coming for the kids first!  We should give our children to God.  We should not give them to our culture's god of sex.  So we have quite a challenge.  Do we leave our faith at the front door of the church as we leave on Sunday morning and just go with the flow?  Or do we take our faith with us?  

     If there was ever a time when we needed the power of God, it is now.  God has the power to save anyone from the bondage of addiction!  Just as God empowered David to kill the lion, the bear and  giant Goliath, no enemy is too powerful for God.  It doesn't matter what we have done or how we have messed up our life, God is able to deliver.  Perhaps we are the only question.  Christ laid down his life for us.  Are we willing to lay down our life and reputation for Him?