Depression affects more people in our culture than any other emotional disorder. Americans, on average, may be more depressed, and at a younger age, than they have ever been. Since most of us are downcast at some time or another, we turn to a psalm that asks honestly, “Why are you downcast, O my soul?” (42:5). And we are encouraged when it answers hopefully, “Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God” (42:11). D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones stressed that talking to ourselves rather than allowing circumstances to talk to us is the very essence of wisdom here. It is a case of the mind speaking to the emotions rather than the emotions dictating to the mind!
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David Bodanza is the pastor of Mission of Grace Church in Massachusetts. He is also a practicing lawyer. He holds an M.Div. degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a J.D. from New England School of Law. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, four children and ten...