Posted by sasha71 on January 21, 2004, at 19:32:39
I debated about which forum to post this is and decided since God is such a divisive topic,
I'd probably better come over here to begin with where at least asking God for help isn't heresy.Ok - here's my question.
I read/hear/see where people suffering from various forms of mental illnesses beg God for help in different
aspects of their lives - either diagnosis, maintaining, medication, withdrawal, etc.My specific question deals with asking God to help with withdrawal problems stemming from choosing to wean
oneself from the prescribed medication. Why haven't these people considered the possibility that the help they are
requesting from God, goes against what he was trying to do in providing access to these medications to begin with?I'm *not* saying the withdrawal symptoms are punishments or anything like that for 'not listening to him'.
It kind of reminds me of a joke about a priest/minister/rabbi/good-all-around-person whose house was flooding. Person
crawled to roof of house and begged God to save him. A person in a boat, the Coast Guard in a rescue ship, and a helicopter
all came in turn to help this man and he waved them off saying God would save him. The man dies. When he sees God, he asked Him
"why didn't you save me? I've been a good man all my life." God says, "I sent you 3 chances, what more did you want?"If we entertain the notion that our intelligence and ability to learn/create/discover things come from God - then it follows
the medication we have developed for mental illnesses could be God's way to help us. And it is up to us to decide for ourselves if
we can live with the side-effects as the medications are improved upon and eventually (we hope) perfected.Why beg God to help us quit using the help He has provided us to begin with?
I"m just a bit confused. I hope my question isn't too confusing and maybe this will be an interesting topic to explore.
poster:sasha71
thread:303908
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faith/20040113/msgs/303908.html