KBM Desperate And Depressed
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I hope you have enjoyed this series on “Impact 3:16” as I know I have. It has been a wonderful study to go through, from my perspective, and I pray you have found benefit with it as well. Last week, we looked at “Necklaces & Pomegranates” from 2 Chronicles 3:16 and today we find ourselves in the book of Job. Only Jesus is more “well known” world wide more than Job. In fact this Hebrew poem is considered by worldly scholars one of the great poems in history even though they do not consider it inspired. Because of this renown most know of Job’s history. There is no one that had more and lost more than Job in such a short time. This faithful man turned desperate man started with great wealth as we read in Job 1:3…
Job 1:3 (ESV)
3 ...possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys…
He had so many servants that Job 1:3 simply reads…
Job 1:3 (ESV)
3 …very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.
Yet, in a matter of mere moments Job lost just about everything. He lost the sheep, camels, oxen, donkeys, and even 10 children. I can honestly say I have experienced great loss, having buried four children, but I can not imagine loosing so much all at once and an ashamed to say I’m not sure I would have responded as Job in Job 1.21…
21 And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Though this was Job’s reaction it is no wonder this loss drove him to a great state of desperation and depression as we see in our text for today, Job 3:16.
16 Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?
He was in so much mental anguish he wished he had never been born or been born dead. Yet, through all this Job knew two things. First, as we have just seen, Job understood that faithfulness was not something one did “only when things were easy and good.” Second, we see Job was very reasonable and logical in how he processed everything. We can learn a lot from Job and how he handled his desperate and depressed state. Each year more and more people are diagnosed with depression and each year the starting age seemly lowers. Why is this? What can be done to stop this trend? The answer is found in how Job handled his desperation and depression.
As we noted Job was was first, faithful to God and did not try and embrace the irrational. By this I mean that even in Job’s deep mental distress he stayed rational. Do to years, what was considered mistreatment of mental sexual disorder such as homosexuality and more recently transgenderism, we have found that many are trying to rationalize the irrational. For example, we know a biological male is not female and vise versa, but that doesn’t stop people from promoting such. Today, unfortunately, many are depressed and desperate because they have embraced the irrational instead of the rational.
20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
If people want to succeed in their fight with depression and desperation they must embrace knowledge from “the source,” God’s word, and ignore anything else that goes against such. The one source of knowledge that leads to a “peace that surpass all understanding” and allows one to overcome desperation and depression is not in the world’s knowledge and wisdom (Ecclesiastes 1:2) but in “fearing God and keeping his commandments (Ecclesiastes 12:13).
Most depression is an embracing of the irrational as rational and if one seeks that which is true and seeks that which is right in God their desperation will turn to confidence and depression will turn to peace. Why not give God a chance, after all, what do you have to loose?
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