I was thinking about the news a heart needs. Each Psalm I mediate on provides a new way of thinking about God and yourself which in essence is the way of strength and healing. The Holy Spirit comforts and counsels our heart and emotions by delivering some awesome realisations about reality.
Ps 86:4-7 What do we do? Lift up our soul, open ourselves, still our mind then....
The Lord is ready to forgive and abundant in lovingkindness - to who? to all who call upon Him. Here we find ourselves.
We are not alone - Freudian psychology leaves you completely on your own. Who does your psychologist leave you with - a new bundle of self centered thoughts or the loving comforting God and creator of you and the universe?
Ps 86: 11 What do I do now? Walk in the truth. Who's truth? God's truth revealed by the Holy Spirit through his word in the bible and supported by His daily revelation to our spirit through our prayer and meditation on his word. Your psychologist may have some insights into strategies for changing your thinking but they must be shaped by the goal of drawing close to your maker and experiencing His love and healing closeness.
Ps 86: 11 Unite my heart - unite my emotions, focus my mind, stabilize my thinking, restore my vision - how? by fearing (adoring worship) our Lord and God revealed through Jesus Christ.
86:12 How? By giving thanks to the Lord with all my heart. Don't dwell on your broken dreams and unfulfilled expectations and the messy past - rather dwell on your access by grace into the presence of your creator- a slightly new line of thinking as opposed to current institutional psychology which asks you to replace previous mental images with new mental images which are still only your own and therefore only supported by your own mind since there is only you to think about - like the cat chasing its tail!!
Ps 86.13 So what do we dwell on? "For your lovingkindness to me is great!!!" If you are not sure what this is, ask? Ps 86:17 "Show me A SIGN FOR GOOD......" Not that I need a sign after viewing the cross of Jesus and his resurrection - He is present asking you and me to open the door of our thinking and heart to receive his presence and begin our journey out of ourselves (your psychologist may say into yourself, but whats there?) to him and our eternal destiny (yes we have meaning beyond suffering and death through the resurrection of Jesus).
This little meditation reflects the dichotomy between humanistic psychology attempting to find answers only within and the environment (Where else if you don't believe in the creator?) and looking out of ourselves to God and discovering our uniqueness and worth in His loving hands and grace given to us in Jesus. Which would you rather be left with at death?
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