"Taking anxiety medication means I don't trust God enough to heal me naturally."
How it sounds in your head: Everyone at church talks about peace that passes understanding. If I really believed, I wouldn't need pills. My medicine bottle is proof my faith is broken. I'm the girl who couldn't just pray it away.
"Jesus answered and said to them, 'Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.'"
-- Luke 5:31Religion's false dichotomy that spiritual means = anti-medical, rooted in gnosticism that denies God works through physical means.
She sees Instagram testimonies of people healed without medicine and wonders why her faith isn't 'strong enough.' Her church culture subtly shames practical help as 'less than' miraculous intervention.
Hezekiah was dying and God promised to heal him, adding fifteen years to his life. God's method? Isaiah said 'Take a lump of figs' and they applied it as medicine to his boil, and he recovered.
I REFUSE the lie that medication disqualifies my faith. IT IS WRITTEN that Jesus affirmed physicians for the sick. My God invented the chemical compounds that balance my brain. I am NOT less spiritual for taking what He provided through medical science. IT IS WRITTEN that even when God promised Hezekiah supernatural healing, He used medicine - figs applied to the wound. I am the righteousness of God in Christ, and my Father provides healing through EVERY good gift, including prescriptions. The blood of Jesus covers me completely whether I take medicine or not.
Your Father is running toward you with the prescription bottle in one hand and supernatural peace in the other, saying 'I give you EVERY good gift - use the medicine without shame while I work all things together.' He's not keeping score of how you get well, only celebrating that you ARE well.