It's Friday night and I am at our church facility printing bulletins and sermon outlines. It's a weekly ritual that signals the end of another week and the realization that another Sunday is very close. As a pastor, Sunday's are work days...not my only work day by the way. But more than work, it's a privilege because it is the primary way I flesh out God's vocational calling on my life.
This Sunday we begin a new teaching series called, "No One: The Gospel According to Jesus." Over the next 6 weeks, leading up to Easter, we will focus on 6 statements from the Gospel of John where Jesus used the words, "No One." I am excited about this series because it will allow us the opportunity to focus in on our hope and message, the gospel. The gospel is so much more than a door we walk through to get saved, it is also our hope for becoming like Christ as we remember and rely upon all that God has accomplished for us in Christ.
Because of the gospel, we are forgiven and free!
Because of the gospel, we are justified and sanctified!
Because of the gospel, we have hope!
Lord may we grow to understand, appreciate and cling to the hope found in the beautiful story of Your gospel!
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THE BIBLIE AND THE DEPRESSION
"Then cometh Jesus with then unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples. Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me." (Matthew 26,36-38)
I think depression is one of the most tragic of which passes through the soul of a person, and because it disfigures the depression self-esteem, self, a sense of transcendence, and other qualities that make man the biggest creations of God. It is an evil that seeks to dispel that image that God placed in us.
In the Bible there are cases of people like Abraham, Moses, King David, the prophet Jeremiah, the prophet Jonah, the Old Testament and New Testament in the case of the apostle Peter and Paul, and even of the Lord Jesus Christ through times of depression.
Sin however I just want to refer to the text of Matthew 26,36-46 in showing that the Lord Jesus at the Garden of Gethsemane with his disciples, suffered a great depression because they experience a profound sadness and a mortal agony. The Lord Jesus looms the intense suffering that was going to experiment until his death at the hands of the Jews, so they turned to the Lord for a prayer that she can regain the strength and peace I needed to face their prueba.
Siendo that the Lord your face depression as any man and found out to them in prayer, this may be a good choice whether you are taking medications as therapy or as an act of faith to level the emotions that are found in our hectic hearts
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