Watching Daily At Wisdom's Gates

  ‭Psalm‬ ‭73:26‬ ‭ESV‬ My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. https://bible.com/bible/59/psa.73.26.ESV Unless Jesus returns first, our flesh and heart will eventually fail, whatever 'health, wealth and happiness' peddlers may say. We live in a cursed word where death appears to have the final word. 'But'... Christ defeated death. The eternal Son of God is the firstfruits from the dead. We will go to be with Him if we would allow Him to be the strength of our hearts and our portion forever. Everyone will rise again, either upon Christ's return or after death. Some will rise to eternal life; others to eternal death. The Psalmist had been jealous of the wicked who often seem to have easy lives. Then he went to worship and got some divine perspective. It's not worth an easy life to face eternal damnation. I assume the Psalmist was an old man, confronting his own mortality. Here, towards the end of the Psal

  ...Recover from Mental Illness This is my true story of how God helped me to recover from mental illness. Firstly, and I'm sure most importantly, there was a whole lot of prayerful support from loved ones, especially my longsuffering parents. My recovery is an answer to prayer! Secondly, God used unbelieving health care professionals, who helped me to identify 'red flags' as to how I fell ill in the first place and how I relapsed a couple of times. I first fell ill after uni, after a sheltered childhood and a blessed time at uni. Graduation was like a bereavement, to leave good friends and a supportive church community. My red flags all conveniently begin with W. The first one is Work. Nothing wrong with work, but I agonised about what to do after uni, and convinced myself I'd made the wrong choice about next steps. I got so worked up and mentally ill that I ended up unemployed for a year after graduation. My second red flag is Whereabouts. If I wasn't in a