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Depression: Maybe Your Life Really Is In A Mess

When we are depressed we see ourselves as failures, useless, no good to anybody. What if this is the truth about us? What if all the happy people are living in cloud cuckoo land, just cosily in denial. I am a Methodist Local Preacher in Great Britain. Those are my credentials, but what I have to say are my own opinions, based on the Bible and not necessarily the opinion of the Methodist Church. The Bible says tha "there is none righteous, no not one." In other words we are all in a mess. God is good and cannot tolerate our lack of love for Him or our friends and neighbours. That sounds black, but it is not the end of the story. God in love for His children has made a way back into his good books. There is a verse in 1 John 1 which says,"If we confess our sin, He is willing to forgive us our sin and cleanse us from all unrighteousness." The slate can be wiped clean, but how? Because Jesus came and sacrificed himself upon the cross taking the punishment for all God's children. Your feelings of depression my be God calling to you to come back to Him. But it isn't always like this. You may have belonged to Jesus for many years, so why do you get depressed? The world is a sad and sorry place and maybe you are mourning for all the bad things that people do. That can act like a prayer, just hang onto your Lord and let Him take you along the path of life He has for you and wait for his time to bring you out of depression once more.

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