Depression

Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my saviour and my God. I am deeply depressed; therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls, all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me. The Lord will send His faithful love by day, His song will be with me in the night- a prayer to the God of my life. Psalm 42:5-8

Do you know this psalm starts with: 'As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for You God. I thirst for God, the living God'. I do not associate this verse with a depressed person as it sounds so clear and full of desire. In depression blackness occludes the light and yet the writer of this psalm expresses his darkness and need but then answers himself with truth. He obviously has a maturity and a knowing of truth that brings him back to clarity.

Why do we get depressed? We are overcome by blackness from grief and pain, we can talk ourselves into it by speaking lost words, as we see the psalmist do. Depression is a huge emotion but that does not mean that God's word is not true or that He cannot save, quite the contrary, He is ever able to save.

I have experienced it's blackness and cannot let it consume me. My God is able to save, wanting to save. He is the answer when all around goes belly up, He is GOD, He is my deliverer.

My God is greater than depression and blackness, He is greater than defeat, He is greater than all the noises of the enemy, He is greater than ALL the works of darkness. Amen!