posted Jun 4, 2017, 7:54 PM by Grant Garber
- Depression is a major ill that affects more people than we imagine and infects them more than we realize.
What can cause depression? - One’s temperament
- Physical disability or illness
- Being overtired or stressed
- Clinical depression
- Spiritual depression (sin/guilt)
- The details of David’s circumstances may differ from ours, but the experience of his depression isn’t at all different from the symptoms suffered by so many. Self-pity, worrying, withdrawal, and pessimistic reminiscing have been the painful lot of the depressed in all ages.
- David was depressed and he knew it and was prepared to admit it.
- David communicated his depression to the Lord.
- David delved into the situation in which he found himself. He asked some relevant questions.
- There is a major difference between allowing your depressed state to talk to you and you talking to your depressed state.
- David determined to “remember” the Lord even though the very environment in which he was going to do the remembering was hostile.
- There is no better cure for depression than praise.
- God became the focal point of David’s attention -- -
- “God of my life” (vs. 8)
- “God my rock” (vs. 9)
- “God my hope” (vs. 11)
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