The art of overcoming mental illness is simply choosing to trust the Lord more than your own thoughts. 

During the time I went through mental illness, the Lord taught me not to believe everything I was thinking. Mental illness distorts your thought life, which means that your thoughts are not trustworthy. 

However, His word (the bible) is always trustworthy. 

In this post, I want to convince you to trust the word of the Lord because He has proved Himself trustworthy time and time again. 

After the flood, He promised Noah that He would never flood the earth again, and since that day, He has not. He even gave us a rainbow as a sign of this promise. So we can never forget His faithfulness (Genesis 9: 9-14). 

Another sign of His faithfulness is the promise of our saviour (Isaiah 9:6-7). The Lord promised that Christ would come and that He would rule for eternity. 

My personal favorite is that the Lord is so trustworthy that He doesn’t go against His own word. The fact is that the Lord can do what He wants. He could flood the earth again and wipe the entire human race. He could cancel sin and change the rules around salvation. But He won’t, because the Lord is so trustworthy that He won’t go against His own word. 

Because if He did, it wouldn’t make Him trustworthy anymore. 

If your thoughts ever make you believe that you are all alone in your mental battles. Meditate on bible verses about the Lord always being with you and never leaving you alone. 

If you ever feel like you can’t move forward anymore, meditate on bible verses about the Lord carrying you through. 

If you ever feel hopeless and that there is no way out, meditate on bible verses about there always being hope and the Lord always providing a way out. 

You can trust Him because He has proved Himself trustworthy. 

Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. – Psalm 20:7