Do Not Judge Depression

Those who base their judgements against us on whether or not we have depression are lacking in empathy and kindness. They have a far too elevated view of their own spirituality.

I would like to say here that depression does not define who we are or our spiritual walk. It can be a sign of sin but not always, our bodies are fleshly and fallen, it misfires often, that includes our emotions.

In these final days of apostasy believers will be hit with sadness because of loneliness,... while living godly lives honoring Him. The problem of depression is fleshly, we are spiritual.

Romans 7:15-120 "15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.
16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.
17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.
19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me."

If we are in the Holy Spirit as believers, we will ask ourselves if there is sin that is causing depression, however I think as believers we will already know if sin is doing it. When we are walking with the Lord and depression or sadness hits, it is not an indication of our walk with God, but more a body that is malfunctioning or the result of the evil we see around us.

Anyone who can live in this world as a believer and be unaffected by the rampant debauchery all around them, is in my humble opinion, lacking empathy without understanding the gravity of sin. They may also have no concern for the lost. When we understand the sinfulness of sin, coupled with the fact that many people we know are on their way to hell, it would be impossible to ignore this. Going our merry way enjoying ourselves is an indication of someone who does not love God's way and perhaps has never been born again.

Indifference is a form of demonic hatred.

Isaiah 42:20 "You have seen many things, but you do not observe them; Your ears are open, but none hears. "

Matthew 13:15 "FOR THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE HAS BECOME DULL, WITH THEIR EARS THEY SCARCELY HEAR, AND THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR EYES, OTHERWISE THEY WOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES, HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART AND RETURN, AND I WOULD HEAL THEM.' "

Do Not Harden Your Heart

Deut. 28:47-48 "Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you."

When we defy God, refuse to acknowledge Him in our schools and public places, He will come against us in ways we never thought of, even the natural consequences of our own sin will pile on us, until we repent, if we do not repent then we will see harsher and harsher judgments, devastating misery while hardening our own hearts with each one.

When we harden our own hearts, God sees fit to harden them even further until we have no chance to return to repentance.

Matthew 4:7 "Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

As a culture we have sorely tested God, time after time after time, refusing to see the wickedness of our ways. Now that we are suffering the consequences of broken marriages, broken children and now rebellion everywhere we look, we want the Lord to bail us out. We want Him to bless us with peace, happiness and prosperity when we are not willing to confess, admit openly our sinfulness, even defending our evil as though it were good.

Exodus 8:32 "But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the people go."

Exodus 9:12 "But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and just as the LORD had predicted to Moses, Pharaoh refused to listen."

First Pharaoh hardened his own heart with each plague, finally God hardened it permanently. When we refuse God continuously, eventually He will move to make our hardened heart permanent.

Hebrews 3:8 "DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME, AS IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS,"