Saturday, August 07, 2004
Scriptural Prozac?We've all had those times when so depressed with the strains and trials of life, that life does not seem worth living. Our biggest wish at that time would be to go with the Lord. I seem to get hit with such a thing, almost on a weekly basis, lack of food and sleep, will bring these on, myself both food and sleep are often strangers. But we can get the same feeling when going through any fire that we wish would end and yet we know its not likely to. Many people today, rather than deling with the root of the problem, will go and seek medical help so that they can justify their malady and be respectable and give it a name, and even have a bottle of pills to prove they are really sick. That proves it does it not? A doctor would not give anyone pills unless they actually needed it?Wrong!! It justifies and allows people to run away from the reality of life and hide in a bottle and go into deep avoidance of the problem. Normally the problem is ourselves. Elijah experienced the same. If he were alive in today's world, someone would have urged him to ignore the Angel of the Lord, and go and get a bottle of prozac! Which is what we do today, we turn away from the Lord and pick up worldly solution, which at least indicates lack of trust for God to get us through it. Would anyone really like this story from Kings to have a different ending, and have Elijah being handed a bottle of prozac instead of excperiencing the love of God?
1 Kings 19
3 Elijah was afraid [1] and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, 4 while he himself went a day's journey into the desert. He came to a broom tree, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. "I have had enough, LORD ," he said. "Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors." 5 Then he lay down under the tree and fell asleep.
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