No peace

“They dress the wound of My people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.” Jeremiah 6:14
No person in their right mind would think of putting a band-aid on a broken bone and expecting it to heal. Yet people try to deal with their feelings of guilt and loneliness by pampering themselves, reading self-help books, spending the night out with friends etc. These are all efforts to treat the symptoms, whereas what they reall need to do is deal with the root issue, the real problem – which is sin.
Sin affects us all. It separates us from God. Man was created with a desire to fellowship with God, but sin breaks this connection. Making people feel good about themselves (by saying ‘peace, peace’) is not the answer. There can be no peace between a person and God, if sin is reigning supreme in their heart. Sin is a serious issue and is needs to be dealt with at the root. This is why secular psychology can never give all the answers. The problem is deeper than the psyche, the soul. The problem is in the spirit. Only the Spirit of God, and the Word of God, can reach the spirit of man (Heb. 4:12). And He can, if you will allow Him to.