Today is the first
day, of the rest of your life!! Wow!! Now ain't that really saying
something. That is unless you are one of those millions of people
around the world, that suffer from depression. I am not going to get
cute on you, and start throwing words around like acute, and chronic.
The main reason is that I am not a Doctor, and the other reason is
that I really don't know what they mean.
I do know this
little fact that depression, while left untreated, can turn deadly. I
have battled with depression for most of my life. There were times
that I didn't even know what was wrong, but I knew that there was
something seriously wrong. Now I take one small pill a day, and it
keeps my entire day in balance.
Oh my!! Did you
just hear, what that man that claims, to be a Christian just said?
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah,.....I can just hear the Pharisaical religious crowd
piping in to tune!! Bring it on, and let's get that great debate
started, so it can end just as quick.
I know that my
Lord and Savior, can and will heal all those that, He chooses to
heal, in the way, that He chooses. I don't know why He doesn't
choose, to heal all of us, in a miraculous way. The fact is that He
chooses Doctors, to be our source, of healing at times. I personally
don't have a problem, with the way that He does, what He does. So far
I have been too busy receiving, to take over His job of healing!!
Depression left
untreated can turn deadly. I don't know what the numbers are
estimated at but, I know that the number would be high, of those that
decide, to take their own lives, because of depression. I also have
been on that end of the spectrum. If it never takes a person to that
extreme, then it has gone far enough.
Depression zaps
the joy from a person, a little at a time. It is very subtle, in the
way, that it moves on a person. It tells it's victim that it is
alright, to feel a little down. That nobody understands what I am
going through right now, and if they did they would be more
sympathetic to my cause. Depression causes an internal microscope to
loose focus on everything except self.
Actually,
depression is a demonic tool set up by Satan, to rip God's children
right, from His hands!! It can be devastating, on a Christian. It
takes the very things that God stands for, and twist them inside
out!! It makes people with-drawl from assembling themselves together.
This means far more than just going to church. As believers, we
should assemble ourselves together, on a daily basis to encourage
each other, and enjoy the company of one another.
Everybody knows
that there is strength in numbers. Jesus never sent a person on a
mission alone. He always sent them of in at the very least, in pairs.
We were not created to walk alone. When we wonder off from the crowd
that gives Satan his greatest chance, to tempt us with something,
that we really don't need.
As human beings we
were designed to accomplish a few basic things. First thing is the
fact that we were created to worship. The very core of our nature is
to worship something. We can't change this, because it is instilled
in our basic makeup of our genetics. We must worship something!! Our
Creator created us to worship Himself, and at the same time, gave us
free will so we could choose, what we wanted to worship, for
ourselves.
Don't you find it
simply amazing that this little talk started on depression, and has
shifted to the way that we were created. Maybe, if we would get back
to the way that we were created, and for what we were created to do,
we might not have all these troubles. Anyway that we want to take,
and look at it, depression is a real issue, and shouldn't be taken
lightly. It robs us of the very like that Jesus came to give us. It
can happen to anybody, at any given time. Christian, and
non-christian alike can suffer from this dilemma the same.
If you suffer from
depression, or know somebody that does, make sure to get help for
this deadly condition. The world is far too beautiful, for anybody to
be hiding out, in our own homes!!
…........Much Love
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