Dear brothers and sisters,
Loving greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ. Today let us see about the disturbance what we feel in
our heart which is depressed and totally downcast and how we can
come out of these heartaches with the help of God. What we should
do in such times of depressions and disappointments? The man’s
soul has three things in it namely, the will, the mind and the
feelings. Many times we are not feeling good and our mind is depressed
and we could not have a strong will to act. Here we see the psalmist
asks himself and his soul a question “why you are downcast
and disturbed within you? Then he says, still I have hope in God
and I will praise Him because he is my saviour and my God that
means in spite of all these disturbances in the heart, he has
hope in God as in Psa 43:5, “Why are you downcast, O my
soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I
will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.”
Our God do not want to see His people to be downcast in their
lives. We see God asking this question to Cain in Gen 4:6 Then
the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why is your face
downcast? He becomes downcast when God did not accept his offerings
as in Gen 4:5, “but on Cain and his offering he did not
look with favor. So Cain was angry, and his face was downcast.
The remedy what God gave at the time to Cain is in Gen 4:7, “If
you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do
not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires
to have you, but you must master it." So we must also do
what is right in the sight of God and man and master sin otherwise
sin will stay within our reach at the door only.
When the great Prophet Samuel’s mother
was downcast in her spirit because she was not respected but mocked
by others because of her barrenness (without a child) she went
to the church and poured her heart out in prayer as in 1 Sam 1:13,
“Hannah was praying in her heart, and her lips were moving
but her voice was not heard. Also in 1 Sam 1:16, “Do not
take your servant for a wicked woman; I have been praying here
out of my great anguish and grief." As she trusted the Lord
and poured her heart out in the presence of the lord, what was
the outcome of it? What the bible says is, afterwards she never
got disturbed in her heart as in 1 Sam 1:18, “Then she went
her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.
The bible teach each one of us to go before God and tell all our
problems to Him as in Phil 4:6 & 7, “Do not worry about
anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving
let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God,
which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and
your minds in Christ Jesus.”
What all cause the heart to be downcast? There
are four things which can affect out heart and cause it to be
downcast.
• First of all, in Lam 3:19, “I remember my affliction
– [when a person thinks too much about his afflictions]
• Secondly, in Lam 3:19, “I remember my wandering,
[when a person is restless and remember all his wanderings which
are tiresome in nature specially when it is without any purpose
and any result.]
• Thirdly, in Lam 3:19, I remember my bitterness –
[when a person remember all the unpleasant past life]
• Fourthly, in Lam 3:19, I remember my gall – [when
a person is annoyed and upset in his life]
What we are supposed to do to come out of the
depression? Let us see from Psa 42:4 & 5:
1. Let us pour our hearts before God, “These things I remember
as I pour out my soul: by hiding we cannot prosper we must be
very open before God.
2. Let us go to the house of God as in “how I used to go
with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God,
with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng.
3. Put the total hope on God as in “Why so disturbed within
me? Put your hope in God,
4. We must praise God in all situations as in for I will yet praise
him, my Savior and – Praising and thanking God in all situations
is very important.
The bible says clearly the Lord will take care
of us and comfort the downcast by sending the servant of God to
comfort our hearts as in 2 Cor 7:6, But God, who comforts the
downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,”
May the Lord help each one of us to pray and
get the right servant of God who can help us in our times of depressions.
Amen.
Your Web-Site Pastor,
Rev.
Dr. T. Marcus Devasahayam
Web-site: www.barodabibleclub.org
e-mail: marcusbbc@yahoo.com
Mobile: 91-9327243600 ,Church 3096882 / 5540651.
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