Subject: Help for discouraged parents? |
Bible Note: Dear justme, It is a straw man argument to assert that I am denying the value of Godly counsel. When a person says, "There are areas that Scripture is slient on." (sic) They are denying the sufficiency of Scripture. It contradicts sound Christian doctrine. Horatio Spafford did not come along to fill some area where Scripture "was silent." One may simply read the words of "It is Well with my Soul" to see that Spafford found sufficiency in Christ alone. You will find no praise for counseling therein. Spafford points unwaveringly to the cross. I am not saying that counseling ought be dispensed with altogether. Any Godly counselor, pastor, or teacher will always, always, always bring to bear the truth of the Scripture into the life of counseled. The comfort with which we are comforted has absolutely no other source. All other human means are band-aids at best, and horribly counter productive and damaging at worst. I respectfully submit, without apology or qualification, that "the Holy Scripture is the ONLY sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience." There are many inadequate, partial, doubtful, fallible, and uninspired means out there. Only Christ is the solid rock. "All other ground is shifting sand." So what does Spafford counsel? "Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come, let this blest assurance control, that Christ has regarded my helpless estate, and hath shed His own blood for my soul." May the Lord mercifully grant grace to the poor hurting ones who are seeking human remedy to see the one and only Way. But may the Lord mercifully forgive us -- who have been recipients of God's grace -- to ever demean its value and power by suggesting explicitly or implicitly, by word or deed, that it is anything less than the one certain cure for the fallen human condition. Oh fearful thought! Lord have mercy! In Him, Doc |