Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason? Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. For example Satan insists Job loves His Creator for mercenary reasons: The Scripture gives numerous instances in which Satan (whose name simply means adversary or accuser ) brings charges against the Church of the Living God. Nonetheless, as I see it there are three primary categories of satanic activity in Scripture. I will not be giving a thorough treatise on the origin and activity of Satan and his minions in this world. They lie in wait for the church and every member of it like thieves, with all their power, to destroy and spoil everything by their deceptions. The devils and evil spirits are so corrupt that they are enemies of God and of everything good. The Belgic Confession (Article 12) summarizes ongoing demonic activity in this way: I do not at all mean to suggest the devil is not active in the world now that sin has entered into our race and corrupted our desires. It’s not as though any of us are like Eve or Adam with wholly pure desires. More likely, it wasn’t the devil who made you do anything it was your own wicked desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death. demons) don’t often have to work very hard to get us to yield to temptation:īut each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Do you ever find yourself responding to sinful choices by asserting, “I’m under severe demonic attack!” when the reality is you simply haven’t been partaking deeply in the means of grace for some time? Or perhaps I am the only one who has experienced that? When we yield to temptation, it’s far too easy to proffer a slightly more refined version of the child’s excuse (“the devil made me do it!”).
In my experience we tend to give the devil either too much credit or too little attention. But do we rightly understand the work of demons in this world? The devil and demonic activity are significant realities of life in this world, so it is not inappropriate that the Lutheran baptismal rite (and others ) include an explicit rejection of the devil. (I also know of a specialist child mental health centre that was built but never put into use because the government “couldn’t afford it”).When I was baptized in the Lutheran church, the minister asked my parents, “Do you renounce all the forces of evil, the devil, and all his empty promises?” The CAHMS workers are, however, amazing and have helped our whole family, but they need more money - there are hardly any beds available at their specialist hospitals and I know young people that have been without support for months due to lack of funding.
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The only reason she was admitted to hospital was because her heart rate was extremely low, so much so that one night it stopped and CPR was necessary.Īfter that she was an inpatient at a regular hospital for OVER A MONTH where none of the nurses had the knowledge on how to help her mentally. They could not refer her to a specialist because THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE BEFORE THEIR MENTAL HEALTH/PHYSICAL HEALTH HITS ROCK BOTTOM. I don’t usually add comments to posts but my little sister has been struggling with severe anorexia and depression over the last couple of years, and CAMHS has been her main source of care.īritish mental health care is poor to say the least - when she was at her worst we visited at least 5 different GPs all of whom told her to just “eat more”.
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