Stops & Steps 1795 11Sep2011

Do not be depressed


Have you ever felt downcast? Head bowed.Thoughts race through your mind without focus and clarity. Gloom overwhelms you. Why ?? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise HIM, my Saviour and my God, says Psalm 43 : 5 The human predicament provides no hope. Sin grips our hearts and makes us downcast. But God provides hope of forgiveness and salvation through the promised Messiah, Jesus Christ.

The psalmist feels cut off from God, longs for worship in the temple, and experiences the depression of emptiness. He cries out, “Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me?” He answers his own question with a glance upward. “Put your hope in God.”

We need hope in God. He comes to us in our discouragement. He knows our depression.
God takes us where we are – downcast, hopeless, discouraged, afraid, uncertain, self-pitying – and lifts our hands to praise Him, our Savior and our God. Filled with the hope of Christ’s resurrection, we long for regular worship in God’s house and praise Him day by day. We have moved from downcast hearts to hands upraised in praise!

Psalm 43 : 5
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Stops & Steps 1795 11Sep2011