Author: Scott

If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. Isaiah 58:10 For the most part, whatever depression, despair and anxiety I’ve experienced has been self-inflicted, resulting from my destructive behavior. I don’t know your situation.…
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Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure . . . Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. Isaiah 58:3-4 In chemical dependency treatment, everyone was committed to following God’s path . . . when it came to drug use. There were those guys though,…
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“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.” Isaiah 57:21 I’m no stranger to jailhouse confessions of faith that dissolve when the inmate is released. Incarcerated, with a life in shambles, it is not uncommon for the inmate to ask for divine assistance. God, get me out of this and I’ll go to church…
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For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8,9 When I was in chemical dependency treatment, one of the counselors used a puppet to…
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Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters . . . Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Isaiah 55:1-2 Pica is a psychological disorder in which an individual develops an appetite for non-nutritive substances like soil, clay, detergent, hair or paint.…
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All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:6 As my son has passed me by in height, I have had to endure daily jokes about my shortness. In my maturity though, I simply make myself feel…
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He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief . . . Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows . . . he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities . . . and with his wounds we are healed. Isaiah 53:3-5 I…
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You felt secure in your wickedness; you said, “No one sees me” . . . and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” Isaiah 47:10 I’m no psychologist, but still, I’ve grown to appreciate cognitive behavioral therapy, which addresses self-destructive thoughts, attitudes and behaviors, striving to find constructive thoughts…
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They who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31 As my own kids are beginning their college search, I am reminded of my own, nearly three decades ago. During a college fair,…
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All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field . . . The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. Isaiah 40:6-8 It’s not uncommon to hear a patient report, in frustration, that they don’t eat anything but still, they gain weight. Usually,…
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