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wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
thee: because he trusteth in thee. (Isaiah 26:2-3)
What
is a Sound Mind? Well, there are many different definitions for a sound mind,
but I will only cover two – the first: the legal definition, and the
second: the biblical one. The legal definition is derived from simple reason in
its first sense; but often the false science of psychology and psychiatric
nonsense gets involved and complicates the matter. Here is the definition of a
sound mind from ‘A Law
Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856:
1,
SOUND MIND. That state of a man's mind which is adequate to reason and comes to
a judgment upon ordinary subjects, like other rational men.
2. The law presumes that every person who has acquired his full age is of sound mind, and consequently competent to make contracts and perform all his civil duties; and he who asserts to the contrary must prove the affirmation of his position by explicit evidence, and not by conjectural proof. 2 Hagg Eccl. R. 434; 3 Addams' R. 86; 8 Watts, R. 66; Ray, Med. Jur. Sec. 92; 3 Curt. Eccl. R. 671. Vide Unsound mind.
The
biblical definition of a sound mind is illustrated in our leading text above –
“Whose mind is stayed on thee (the Lord)” That mind will be at
peace and not distraught with worry, confusion, and disorientation. The
so-called science of psychology has done far more harm to innocent victims than
any narrow sense of good. I have personally witnessed the mental ruin of many
fine young scholars of our community and church who have sought treatment from
some psychiatrist and never regained their senses after a regimen of
debilitating and mind-altering drugs. There may even be some in the field of
psychology who believe their arts, but they are as the “blind leading the
blind.” Pavlov’s ‘conditioned response’ is very nearly the limit of truth
in medical psychology. There is more meaning in the simpler term ‘Behavioral
Science’ than in psychology. Psychology has dipped its hand into the government
purse and made itself at home there. Patients referred to its web of ruin are
helpless to escape. Even if they are aware of the abuse acted upon their minds,
their reports are ignored under the guise of not being of a sound mind. So,
victims of the psychiatric ward can kiss their Constitutional rights good-bye.
Every effort by these demons of the medical world is toward enlarging their
largesse with more victims.
A
recent study suggests psychiatry encourages its own ministers to commit
suicide: “A high suicide rate among psychiatrists (58 to 65/100,000
compared with that of the general population, 11/100,000) has been reported by
the following: Freeman, Blachly et al, DeSole et al, and Pond.1-5”
Moreover, a recent global study comparing suicide rates in countries with
advanced psychiatric facilities suffered much higher rates of suicide: Recently
a third, much larger, study was conducted over 191 countries and a population
of 6.4 billion people. This study controlled extensively for economic
factors and found that numbers of psychiatrists and mental health beds were
significantly positively associated with population suicide rates and concluded
that “Countries with better psychiatric services experience higher suicide
rates.” A.P. Rajkumar, E.M. Brinda, A.S. Duba, P. Thangadurai, K.S. Jacob. National
suicide rates and mental health system indicators: An ecological study of 191
countries International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 36 (2013) 339–342 Physician,
heal thyself!
I
believe the above studies suggests the mind belongs to the Creator, and those
narrowly inept minds parading as psychologists would best abandon their greed
and sorcery and turn to the true science of the Creator. “O Timothy, keep
that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain
babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: 21 Which some professing have
erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.” 1 Tim
6:20-21 (KJV) Is there any true Christian that believes some suicidal
psychiatrist can find a comparable cure to mental despondency and despair to
that which can be found in Holy Scripture. If I sound angry, I am. I am losing
a second child in my church just over this past year – both straight A students
academically – to the shamans of psychology. Their minds are being rendered
crippled and made dull by the medications given in order to KEEP them in a
facility and allowing the psychiatrist to keep their blood money flowing. Our
society has gone crazy along with their gods of psychology.
A
sound mind can only be found in the love and truth of God. Any who suffer in
ignorance of God are ‘not in their right mind.’ Let me give you a parabolic
example from Scripture:
You
will remember the second son of a good father who desired his father divide his
inheritance with him even while his father was yet living. His father KNEW well
his son’s problem – it was fleshly dreams which had over-powered his spiritual
character. Denying the boys request would only delay the problem. Better to
have his son learn a hard lesson while the father was still alive to help him
through his problems than to wait until the father was dead and buried and
helpless to intercede. He gave the boy his part of the inheritance. 13 And
not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey
into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And
when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began
to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that
country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16 And
he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and
no man gave unto him. 17 And WHEN HE CAME TO HIMSELF, he said, How many hired
servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with
hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto
him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, 19 And
am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. 20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a
great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his
neck, and kissed him. (Luke 15:13-20)
Was
the boy in his right mind when he took his early inheritance and abandoned his
father’s house? NO! Was he in his right mind in splurging wildly in riotous
living? NO! He had forgotten his father just as many Christians forget their
God. They are not in their right minds; but if you will have peace of mind and
soundness thereof, you will keep your mind stayed upon the Lord. He will keep
your mind sound and safe – not some tin-horned psychiatrist with his fool’s
gold of chemical agents and false counsel. The boy only regained a sound mind
when he remembered the father that he had left behind. HE CAME TO HIMSELF! That
is when we are going in the right mental direction. The boy headed home by the
same road he came. It was the SAME road, but it was a DIFFERENT DIRECTION. The
old man saw the boy while he was yet afar off, yet he KNEW him and RAN to him.
God is like that. Even if we are afar off from God, He cares what direction we
are heading. If toward God, God will run to us and embrace us.
If
there are parents reading this devotion, I pray that you will never allow your
child to be medicated with the mind-altering drugs of the psychiatrist –
whether at school or hospital. I have witnessed first-hand the senseless
processes of these fools in ruining young lives. Turn rather to God for His
counsel on a Sound Mind.
If
you are one to believe Holy Scripture, here is a divine promise for you: 6 Be careful for nothing; but in
every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be
made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all
understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Phil 4:6, 7)
You
have the choice – either believe God, or the false science of psychology: 7 For God hath not given us the
spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a SOUND MIND. (2 Tim 1:7)
