Matthew 23:24 Blind guides–those straining out the gnat and swallowing the camel! 25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

      Every little snort, sideways glance or odd gesture that man exhibits is now pathologized ad nauseam. Psychobabble is the language being used to describe these human traits and explain away the misunderstanding that many have towards each other. The loosely defined diagnosis given by so many of the self-proclaimed media gurus is whatever sounds trendy, and has become referred to as diagnosis creep. They have created an environment where the soul of personal thought is being removed and replaced with a social pablum of commonality. Rom. 1:22 Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. Labelling anxious thoughts as another syndrome feels like they are making rules for a race for the bottom of living an apathetic existence. Claiming to be helping people find their way through the maze of social acceptance, they drive them into deeper despair. Matt. 15:14  Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.

      Why can we no longer mind our own business and live without being on someone’s psych list? Why do we need an elaborate explanation for every nonsensical thought? As long as we keep explaining the misbehaviour of the masses as a symptom of human circumstances, we will be left with humanistic analysis, rather than realizing that man’s heart is easily manipulated toward failure. Mankind keeps looking for answers outside of God’s declarations of what is right and true. Man’s heart is sinful and needs deliverance from itself, but it cannot be delivered by ourselves. Jer. 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? This is the dilemma we face. We need help that is from outside of ourselves, but we do not acknowledge the One who can and has provided the way of saving, healing, or nurturing our souls back to life.

      Many counsellors, psychologists, and psychiatrists are sincere in their dedication to helping those who have given up on life. The difficulty that arises for these well-meaning caregivers is that they cannot give away what they do not have. They cannot heal morally wounded souls with secular therapy. The soul of man needs inner healing that comes from God who created every soul in His image. Trying to heal a deep spiritual conflict with a few exercises in positive thinking might provide some temporary relief as this is prone to do for a season of time, but this is often short-lived when the emptiness in the soul rises to the surface again. Some positive results come from those who are trying to help those suffering from soul sickness – which is most often described as mental and anxiety disorders – but again, the newfound feel-good moment only lasts for a short time.

       Without meaning to, these caregivers become dispensers of watered-down platitudes and listless advice that simply causes a lot of head nodding and whispers of “Hmm.” Therefore, quick decisions to medicate become the tool of choice, resulting in lonely depressed people crying for any reason to want to live. Psalm 18:41a They cried for help, but there was no one to save them. Man needs a redeemer to heal their inner man that is lost in the confusion of the world’s offerings of quick fixes. The spirit of man is dead until the Spirit of God’s life moves into the once-dead heart and gives it eternal life. Prescriptions cannot heal the moral bankruptcy that is now accepted within normal life. Isa. 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

      The overwhelming amount of people in need of help is swamping the waiting rooms of the medical practitioners, who end up offering a one-size-fits-all formula for those suffering. What the world needs is a Saviour who can heal the issues of the soul and keep the people healed throughout their lives. Until we acknowledge our need for the Lord’s redemptive plan we will keep digging ourselves into a cavern of doubt and mistrust. We are seeing this now on a large scale, and many no longer trust any authority or institution to come through for the needs of society. The world is in a state of limbo trying to find some solid footing on the ever-moving foundations of life. We need a solid saviour who we can believe. Acts 4:11 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. 12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

      The reason that all this psychobabble exists is man’s unwillingness to admit that they did not create themselves or have the destiny of their lives mapped out. The constant insistence that man knows better than God, has brought the entire mess of the world upon their heads. All the clichés and netspeak in the world cannot explain away the saving power of the risen Lord. Jesus said plainly, “I the way, the truth, and the life.” He did not say, He was a teacher of positive thinking in the area of truth, or He had a better idea for harmonious living. He was emphatic that He is the answer to all life’s problems and issues, plus He proclaims to be the Saviour of the world. John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

      People are looking for a way out of the mess they are in. Jesus said, “He is the way.” Many are looking for the truth to live by. Jesus said, “He is the truth.” Everyone is looking for something worth living for and a fulfilling life. Jesus said, “He is the life.”  Jesus’ bold statements were given to us to hang our hearts, minds, and souls on. Christ can be counted on to give us the peace we are looking for in a world that has adopted a technobabble philosophy that has dulled the hearts of many. It is in Christ that life is found and I pray we all find it soon. Acts 17:28 For in Him we live and move and are.’ As also some of the poets among you have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.‘