This article is written by Pastor David Lovi.
David Lovi is a Jewish believer in Jesus. He has extensive experience as a missionary to Jewish people and as a pastor in the Chicago area. David is a graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Ministry degree. He has a passion for evangelism and helping others go out and do the work of reaching the lost. David also feels called to equip the Church to reach the Jewish people and to believe the words of the Apostle Paul in Romans 1:16 where he says that “the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation for everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile.”
Pastor Lovi writes:
I’m going to say something quite controversial: There is no such thing in this world as “mental health.”
What do people mean by the words “mental health” anyway? Is there some attainable attitude or outlook by which a person might be declared “mentally healthy”? Absolutely not. Not in this world anyway. Who does not wrestle with bad thoughts? Man’s mind has been broken ever since Fall of Adam. In theological terms, this is called the “Noetic effects of sin” – sin’s effect on the mind. And the only “treatment” for a mind which has been perverted and twisted by sin is the Holy Spirit’s application of God’s Word to it. That is the ONLY effective treatment for the mind, but even then, no person on earth perfectly thinks God’s thoughts after Him. Only in Heaven will our minds be perfected.
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I readily confess that I was also seduced for a time by psychology and “cognitive behavioral therapy” which presented itself as some kind of blessing to me and to the Church. But I was so very wrong. At its core, this worldly method attempts to shift blame for bad behaviors to one’s upbringing, or perhaps a lack of “self-love.” Listen! Self-love is how the world originally got in the mess it’s in! Shifting blame was what Adam and Eve did after they fell in the Garden. And from that moment onward, no man but Christ Himself has been “mentally healthy.” Therefore, what I need is not self-love but rather God’s love. Not self-appeasement but rather self-abasement and self-denial. Not being told how my upbringing defines me, but rather, how my sin had separated me from God and necessitated Christ’s substitutionary death on the cross on my behalf.
What I am saying shouldn’t be controversial to Christians, but sadly it is! Whatever happened to Isaac Watt’s words in his hymn “Alas! And did my Savior bleed, and did my Sovereign die? Would he devote that sacred head for such a WORM as I?” Today the churches would say, “Oh Mr. Watts! Don’t call yourself a worm! You need to give yourself a pep talk instead! Boy, I think you need to see a counsellor to raise your self-esteem! It’s mentally unhealthy to talk about oneself that way!”
Is this delusion so widespread that even the Elect embrace it? Jesus tells us that in this world we would have trouble. But everyone now just wants to feel good.
For this reason the church has replaced sin with “sickness” and repentance with self-acceptance. It has replaced doctors of the soul with doctors of psychology. And as a result, what is produced is not an abundance of health, but an abundance of self. Oh, May the Church return to her first love! May she repent of allowing the world to speak into the Church, rather than the Church speaking into the world!
Lord have mercy on us! May we be transformed by the renewing of our minds, not by witchcraft and chicanery, but through the Word, until that Day when we are finally perfected in your presence. Amen.
