Mental Health Insights in the Bible

How To Contend With The Unknown

Noah had to wait for some time to wait for the flood then again for the flood to recede. There is so much unknown that happens here and often in the Bible. Today we talk about how the unknown affects anxiety and some hints we see of how the Bible seems to want us to deal with that. Lessons to Ponder * How does dealing with the unknown affect your mental health? * How does your relationship with God get impacted as unknown elements enter your life? * Are there some unknowns you do better with than others? * Can your prayers and leaning into your relationship with God help with dealing with the unknown? Thank you for listening to this episode! If you want to reach out and ask questions, make an episode request, or offer encouragement then please reach out to us at mentalhealthinsightsinthebible@gmail.com We love you very much!

God's Provision Through A Broken World

In this episode we see how God provides deliverance though one of the most famous de-creation events recorded in the Bible. God provides a way for Noah's family escape the destruction of a wicked people. This is a story of pain, responsibility, and renewal amid destruction and connect well with the struggles we face even now. Lessons to Ponder * How can you honor the dominion that God has given you over your life right now? * Can you allow yourself to sit in the pain of the loss of these people to the flood and allow yourself to trust that what God did was for a good reason. * We all have pains and hard things we contend with, and can we also acknowledge that God still wants to work through us for the benefit of everyone else. * We exist in the tension of the world (as it is now) not fulfilling everything we need. Despite that, can we continue to remind ourselves of that reality and that God is the only one that can fully provide for us. Thank you for listening to this episode! If you want to reach out and ask questions, make an episode request, or offer encouragement then please reach out to us at mentalhealthinsightsinthebible@gmail.com We love you very much!

What Does Righteousness and Blameless have to Do with Mental Health?

We continue to explore the story of Noah in Genesis and work to glean some traits from Noah that may be helpful for us to consider for our own mental health. Lessons to Ponder * Do you feel the pressure of society affecting how you live? * How can we separate ourselves and stand out from those that are doing wrong? * How does violence in the world impact your mental health? * What is a step you can take to being more righteous today? Thank you for listening to this episode! If you want to reach out and ask questions, make an episode request, or offer encouragement then please reach out to us at mentalhealthinsightsinthebible@gmail.com We love you very much!

Impulsiveness and How it Can Encourage Sin

We are starting to explore the flood and how the part of the world that the bible is focusing on is full of sin and suffering. God decides to do something about it but will create a way of safety for the family of the one righteous person around, Noah. This story helps us understand how listening to our own impulses and body can pave a way to sin if we are not connected to God's word. Lessons to Ponder * Why do we have impulses? * What is God trying to cultivate in people to have them "deny their flesh"? * How does sin lead to more sin? * How bad was the sin in the world that God decided the only way to saving the world was to cause this flood? Can you imagine it? Thank you for listening to this episode! If you want to reach out and ask questions, make an episode request, or offer encouragement then please reach out to us at mentalhealthinsightsinthebible@gmail.com We love you very much!

What Can We Learn From Sin Crouching At Our Door?

The story of Cain and Abel sets us up to see the tragedy of how jealousy, shame, and guilt can cause us to protect ourselves in harmful ways. Anger, frustration, rage and upset feelings are all protective type of feelings that normally show up instead the vulnerability in our heart. Cain demonstrates this by striking his brother down and giving into the sin that God warned him about. Lessons to Ponder * What sin is crouching at our own door today? * Are we really so different from Cain? He reacts out of anger and feeling less than. * God hears Abel's blood cry out from the ground, injustice calls to God. * This is another point in which God gives wisdom that is not used and where a human does what is good in their own eyes. * Can we recognize the ways we protect ourselves in relationships? Thank you for listening to this episode! If you want to reach out and ask questions, make an episode request, or offer encouragement then please reach out to us at mentalhealthinsightsinthebible@gmail.com We love you very much!