SAY NO TO DEPRESSION
1 Peter 1:1-9
According to MedicalNewsToday, depression is a mood disorder that involves a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. It can be caused by major disappointments such as loss of a loved one, job loss or any other major catastrophe. Many who go into depression tend to exhibit traits like low moods; reduced interest in activities around them; agitation; fatigue; feelings of worthlessness and recurrent thoughts of death or suicide.
One can see how fast depression is taking over the minds of many people today. The situation in the society today drives many into depression and unfortunately, some believe that the way out of depression is to engage in things like alcohol, drugs, depressants or outright suicide! You don’t have to go any of those routes at all. Suicide is not a way out because that will only lead to hell, and if you must know, the depression and suffering in hell is far worse than what obtains here on earth. Alcohol is also not a way out of depression. If anything, it makes matters worse because the repercussions of actions taken when under the influence of alcohol will lead to further depression. Food does not heal depression either. Drugs will take you to a high for a while but after it wears off, you will find yourself in a deeper pit than before!
We would have you know that there is a tested and sure way out of depression. What a depressed fellow really needs is joy. You see, happiness depends on happenings, but joy comes from the Lord, irrespective of prevailing circumstance. The first step to having joy is to become a believer in Christ. 1 Peter 1:8 says:
“Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:”
When you become a born-again Christian, loving righteousness and hating iniquity, God will anoint you with the oil of gladness above your fellows (Hebrews 1:9). Joy is the fruit of the Spirit and a means by which a born-again Christian may be identified (Matthew 7:17).
PRAYER: I refuse depression in my life in Jesus Name.
