Daniel 7--A Psychiatrist's Nightmare

Daniel 7--A Psychiatrist's Nightmare

In 1969 I was practically a new bride and had the blues, so I turned to a Psychiatrist for help.  Later in years, I would learn that having the blues shortly after you are married is quite normal.  On with my story.  I got an appointment with the Director of the local mental health center.  Keep that in mind that he was the director of this place.  During my first session with him, I felt led to ask him if he believed in Christ.  This was his reply, "If I believed in Christ I would be working against everything I'm striving to do here".  I did not return to him.

Recently I have fallen in love with the 7th chapter of Daniel and his dream.  When he had this dream Daniel wrote it down.  I invite you to read his dream.  It talks about the return of Christ.  He lived over 500 years before Christ was born!  I would be so interested in to know what that Psychiatrist would think about this wonderful dream that only a born-again believer could appreciate. It would be enough to drive him out of his mind. 

What happens when you check into a Mental ward?  The very first thing they ask you is, "Do you think you are Christ?"  Do you not find this very interesting that the first thing they target is Christ?  Do not trust to man's wisdom for it is foolishness to God:

I Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

Does God Really Hate It?

I'm guilty of complaining.  I wonder if we complain without realizing that God really hates it?  I know that it hit me like a ton of bricks today that GOD REALLY HATES IT!

 

Philippians 2:14-15 

14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”[a] Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky. 

This is not to say that there are not legitimate complaints, like brothers and sisters in Christ having a righteous anger against sin among them.

In our personal lives, we grumble about things that are so trivial that a day from now they will be forgotten.  Grumbling is a sin! WOW!!  That really narrows it down, doesn't it?  This will not matter to the world, but to those of us who belong to the Lord we should take note that God hates it!!  

When I was so burdened about this today I asked the Lord to deliver me!  Yes, deliver me!  Yes, we should fight for the things that God loves, but we need to fight against the things He hates also!  He loves babies and His anger toward Abortion will never end until He puts His hand to it and says in His Counsel..."Enough is Enough"!!  Woe to them who mock His mighty Hand and keep killing babies in the womb!!

Little things make us grumble and complain though and God hates it!  I'm aware of this sin now so God will hold me accountable for any grumbling I do in the future.  I want to hate the things that God hates.  May He help me in the name of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.