John 14:14-15
"14 If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.:
The requirements for the Lord's blessing is that we ask in His name and that we obey Him.
God will not honor a request while we walk in disobedience to Him.
Psalm 66:18 "If I regard wickedness in my heart, The Lord will not hear;"
If you want to have your prayers heard by the Lord then you must confess sin and begin to obey Him again.
I was given opioids for pain after a surgery I had. I tried them twice and each time I developed a terrible headache when they were wearing off. I realized I didn't need those and expected just to take IBprophen if the pain got to bad.
The pain never got bad enough for any drugs, but the doctor and nurses acted as though it would be in so much pain I would need the hard drugs.
I can see how people would become addicted to opioids. Instead of enduring the after effects of the headache I chose to use the over the counter to take away the headache, there was never any need for something as strong as opioids for the little bit of pain I had. Even if the pain had been severe I believe just the garden variety over the counter drugs would have been enough. These hard drugs are unnecessary for most pain.
Also, all the people I know who have been on depression meds since they were children, seem to have been stunted in their emotional growth. They are in their fourties and have the mentality of a six year old. I am beginning to wonder if those drugs retard maturation. Of course there will be those who say to me that they have been or are on those drugs and had no ill effects. Often when we are using meds to calm us down or wake us up or take away sad feelings, there would not be an objectivity there to be able to assess how they are really reacting to things.
I am not one to say never take meds, but I believe there is a obsession these days with avoiding any kind of pain, physical or emotional.
Perhaps instead of medicating the children we ought to be taking a look at the home life that might be a factor. I was sad a lot in the home I grew up in because of the constant meanness that occurred. There was no love in that home, the sense of wanting to escape was present all the time. I learned how to deal with the hurt by day dreaming about how things could be when I leave that place. I am thankful that no one placed me on drugs, throwing me into a state of lethargy.
Now as an elder person I realize that everything I had to go through gave me strength later as I felt driven to find out the reason for everything. One cannot spiritually or emotionally mature if all the feelings are removed from their life experience. We must learn to ignore our feelings to think in rational terms. When we never have to practice ignoring our feelings, we become weak minded without growth.
Drugs for depression might be a temporary fix for a little while to get someone over the hill of serious depression, but they should never be used as an ongoing lifetime drug to keep us in a state by which we are no longer dealing with it and the circumstances around us.
By the way: there has only been one bottle of opioids in my medicine cabinet for the one surgery and after two doses they went into the garbage.
The world will tell us we need things we do not need to keep us controlled. What we really need is CHRIST!!!!
