Most people have been faced with a diverse form of a setback in virtually every sphere of their lives. This setback occurs in the area of financial lack, failure in one examination or the other, hankering for what you cannot afford or perhaps as a result of self-imposed denigration due to family challenges that have reduced their self-worth.
At some point, these physical and emotional challenges as a result of unmet expectations leave us literally in the middle of nowhere. Like standing all alone on a lonely plain or in the middle of the dead blue sea with no one to look up to or call to for help –fighting what you cannot conquer! At this point where the thought is blank, depression set in.
Remember when the children of the Israelite were in between the red sea and the Egyptians?
Remember when Moses strokes the rock more than once as directed by God?
Remember what led to Moses breaking the Ten Commandments?
Remember when Job loosed everything?
Remember the aftermath of Peter betrayal of Jesus?
These are a few cases in the Bible that are a function of depression. So, depression is not a topic that emanates in our modern days. It has been way in existence before we were born… and most people today face this quagmire of depression without knowing. They live with it, breathe it, eat and sleep with it.
The mind, a nexus of several activities is bound to get perplexed at a certain point, and how we decide to handle it at that point of perplexity says a lot about how we tend to proceed with our goals in life. It suffices to know that, no matter the challenges or “problems” as some people will call it, you are not the first to be in that precarious circumstance… and the good news is that you have a God that sees and knows everything.
When all seem to be fading away around you, do not allow depression set in, close your eyes to the physical and look beyond your worries.
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