Depressed? Try the Gospel
The main art in the matter of spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself. You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself.
You must say to your soul:
‘Why are you down cast?’ What business do you have being disquieted?
You must turn on yourself, upbraid yourself, condemn yourself, exhort yourself, and say to yourself:
‘Hope in God,’ instead of muttering in this depressed unhappy way.
And then you must go on to remind yourself of God, Who God is, and what God is and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.
Then having done that, end on this great note:
Defy yourself, and defy other people, and defy the devil and the whole world and say with David:
‘I will yet praise Him for the help of His countenance, who is also the heart of my countenance and my God.’
- David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression, 21.
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