How can mental health stay balanced during hard times?
Mental balance during hard times is kept by the peace of God, which surpasses human understanding. As believers pray and leave everything in heaven's throne room, that peace guards their hearts and minds, stabilizing mental health even amid adverse circumstances. This peace follows reconciliation with God through salvation and remains available throughout the Christian walk.
Les explains that we made peace with God the moment we were saved, because reconciliation removed the enmity and made us His children. Then, as we walk the Christian life, we can have outpourings of the peace of God. It never leaves us, but we may have more at some times than others, similar to the filling of the Spirit. As we pray and leave everything in the throne room of heaven, we can come away every day knowing the peace of God, which passeth all understanding. That peace is beyond human concept, and only the believer ever understands what it is. When you have that peace, it will keep your hearts and minds—your whole mental health. Even though we may go through adverse circumstances, our mental health can be kept in balance with the fact that God has given us the assurance of His peace.