World Therapy

Celia Walden wrote an article in the Daily Telegraph this month about the former Archbishop of Canterbury who recently claimed that he has been seeing both a psychotherapist and a psychiatrist. She asks:

What’s the point of God if even Justin Welby is seeing a therapist? If the former Archbishop of Canterbury didn’t have a satisfactory experience with the Lord, then the rest of us are surely lost.

Seeking professional help would make sense for anyone else. Anyone who didn’t have the kind of connections Welby does – you know, to the greatest listener and adviser of all time. He could also, one assumes, have got himself an appointment with the Almighty without any problem whatsoever, running over the hour and avoiding the £100 fee into the bargain. All he had to do was extend himself on an imaginary couch and confide.

Although the mind requires care and medicine much like the body, Walden is correct in questioning why one of the most prominent Christians in the United Kingdom did not find God's comfort and strength sufficient. Then again, he never found His Word sufficient either, leading the state church further and further from its Biblical heritage. When one seeks counsel and direction from a fallen world, one needs counselling from a fallen world, too.

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

A. D