SANITY

Sanity is (Definition: mental health; soundness of judgment ) http://thesaurus.com/browse/sanity

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. ELiot

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. Romans 12:3


Sanitation is the means of promoting health
through prevention of contact with the hazardous elements.

John 15:3 Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

John 17:17 "Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.
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Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
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James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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James 4:4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 John 2:15 - Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Ephesians 5:26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed
her by the washing of water with the word,

As people become unhappy and dissatisfied with their lives, they become succeptible to anyone and any group who makes vague promises ....... (these are) attractive to individuals who happen to have significant defects in their own sense of self to begin with. Belonging to a "glorious cause" and immersing one's defective self in the "collective", offers an opportunity to create a "new" self; one that is usually quite imaginary, but gives you much more of a sense of your own importance. - paraphrased from Doctor Sanity

Ephesians 4:24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995) 2 Corinthians 5:17
Whoever is a believer in Christ is a new creation. The old way of living has disappeared. A new way of living has come into existence.

avoidance / ignore
denial
procrastination

give it up

I cannot act on God's behalf
not ever, not at all !

drop THY still dew of quietness
til all our striving cease
take from our souls
the strain and stress
and let our ordered
lives confess
the beauty of
your peace

then shall all bondage cease
the stormy clangor
of wild war music
o'er the earth shall cease
Love will tread out
the baleful fire of anger
and in its ashes
plant the tree of peace !!

Timothy 6:17 Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.

Romans 12:16 Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation.

Peter 1:17 If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth;

the insanity is disobedience to God