I have currently been contemplating how significant it is when people ask me if I am “informed” about a specific topic when they come for counseling. I understand what they are asking. They desire is someone who “knows” what they are going through, has experience working with their specific circumstances and can treat them. Most of the counselees I see, come because they are hurting. They are depressed, angry, anxious, confused, lost, hopeless, abused, or oppressed. They come in with relational, emotional, mental, physical, or spiritual issues. They want relief. They want to feel better, think better, be better.Likewise, there are plenty of therapists who are cognitive-focused, symptom-focused, emotion-focused, behavior-focused, and relation-focused. None of these perspectives are necessarily wrong, and often helpful in the moment. We witness Jesus providing this type of treatment; he often cast out demons (Matt 4:10, Luke 11:14, Mark 1:34), healed the sick and lame (Matt 15:30, Luke 5:17-39, John 5), cured those physically blind and deaf (Matt 9:27-31, John 9), and even touched and healed the leper (Mark 1:40-45, Luke 17:11-19).What our counselees often want is actually not bad or even wrong; it’s just not a long-term solution. Whether they realize it or not, the treatment they desire is only a temporary salve. What Christ ultimately came to do was to heal the poor in spirit, not the righteous (Luke 4:18-21, Mark 2:17). He came to bring life to the dead (Rom 6). He came to provide a solution to a problem man could never fix.