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I Don’t Need Counseling
I Don’t Need Counseling
There’s a trite saying, “I am too blessed to be stressed”. Some are rightly stressed even to the point of PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Whether wars, family abuse, even church abuse, crime trauma, or societal rejection, many have wrongly suffered and rightly sought help.
While listening to civil rights leaders who endured society’s sinful ire, it was commented that the long-lasting effects are still tormenting some people to where they will not talk about it. Others received personal counseling. Still others used humor to cope. All needed some kind of coping mechanism even though they were in the right.
All this made me think about people who also wrongly suffered for a right cause, felt compelled to talk about it, didn’t need counseling, and oddly convinced others to join in their cause. Either these people are insane, masochists and sadists, or believe in a cause so righteous that their pain only solidified their confidence by identifying them with their leader. Who could be such imitable martyrs?
Christians. Notice Paul’s words,
“Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead and descended from David, according to my gospel, for which I suffer to the point of being bound like a criminal. But the word of God is not bound. This is why I endure all things for the elect: so that they also may obtain salvation, which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.” (CSB’17 2 Timothy 2:8-10)
Paul was once an unbeliever and a persecutor. If you are an unbeliever, and need evidence for the cause of Christ, there is much. One such key is seeing how many people through time – and still today – have suffered wrongly for a just cause, and that cause consumed them more than the suffering. They are not wrong. They are not insane. A conclusion worth considering is what they stand for is so real, so right, so identifying as to who they now are, that believing in Jesus is their overwhelming reality for the positive. They have PTSD – Positive Transformation Sacrificial Discipleship. I don’t need counseling.
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