Girls Gone Bible - GGB+ | JESUS +MENTAL ILLNESS PREVIEW

Episode Date: January 12, 2025

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It's the only area that I ever ask, God, where are you? I could be in my own wilderness for 20 years. I could have the worst things happen to me. And I will always be like, no, I know he's in it. This is the one area where it's just like, it's so scary and it's so hopeless. And it's an area of like, you can't help someone who doesn't wanna be helped.

How do you save somebody who doesn't wanna be saved? Do we have free will? If somebody doesn't accept Jesus, what is the answer? It's not even that they don't want to get saved is that they're sick. So they don't have the capacity to understand it. And that's, I think, the journey that we're both going on of trying to understand. We know that you have to want it and you have a decision, but what do you do when somebody is so mentally ill? And that is my conversation with God every single day.

I am always like, if I take scripture at face value, how you leave the 99 for the one, and you came for not the righteous, but the ones who are sick and who need a doctor, if that is the truth, and I know that it is, that means when you were dying on the cross who are too sick and too unstable to receive you, you had them in mind.

Like you had a plan for them. Jesus is not making us jump through hoops to try and get to him. But what about if people don't have the mental capacity to receive salvation? Like there has to be a plan for them. There has to be a plan there. That is the battle that I face every single day of looking up at God and being like, I know that you a plan Like you have to you have to you are so good You're so kind but there are moments that are so utterly hopeless that like it's just so hard. This is the real stuff This is the stuff that is like really scary and it's not the glamorous Christianity that like, you know a good word and encouraging word can fix like this is real-life word and encouraging word can fix. Like this is real life, scary stuff where darkness seems to reign and win. And I know that ultimately that is not the conclusion to all of this.

I heard a pastor talk about it. It's like final hope versus immediate hope. And our immediate hope is being on earth and having a relationship with Jesus. And He is our hope. He gives us immediate peace, immediate healing, immediate freedom, immediate answered prayers. But that's not always the case. And there are some prayers that we may never see answered on this side of eternity. So there might be our final hope in Jesus, where in heaven there is no more mourning, there is no more tears, and our physical bodies and the things that we go through on earth will be ultimately redeemed in heaven.