The statistics are staggering. Every year over that past several decades, more and more people, both young and old, are diagnosed with various forms of depression. The prescription drug industry has ballooned into one of the largest in the world. The truth is, depression has permeated throughout our culture that if you are not or have nto dealt with depression personally, you certainly have friends and loved ones who have.
Depression, the whole ordeal of being depressed, is a introspective endeavor. One becomes so engulfed with themselves that a deep, dark lens of discouragement and apathy falls like a pall over his or her life. The affect is that the person is left helpless, hampered, and handicapped to live. And be it self-destruction, self-loathing, seclusion, self-pity, self-love, or at the worst, suicide, a depressed person will inevitably seek refuge from somewhere for relief from their pain.
The answer to such a despondent search is God. In the end, God and He alone, is the alleviator of depression. He is love and the Comforter for all our ills. If we or someone close to us is struggling with depression or the like, the only cure is God. Although the step to that relief is easy in theory, it can be challenging in execution: humility. Only when we stop spending all of our time thinking about ourselves and we humble ourselves before the Holy Lord will we be blessed with real relief and actual comfort, straight from the Lord Almighty.
The issue is: what do we do when we are feeling depressed? The answer is clear and accessible: seek after God, the source of all joy, love, and comfort. This is not brain surgery but it does take humility on our part. Only when we fall prostrate before God Himself will we be able to stop looking at the imperfection of ourselves and start looking at that which is perfect: God. Let us then take this to heart when dealing with such challenging issues as depression and to seek after God to light our paths during the dark times!
No comments:
Post a Comment