Depression

Without depression there is no exaltation.
-Oswald Chambers

I agree with this statement because without the dark night of the soul there is no bright day of the spirit. The older I get it seems the more wildernesses I have to venture through. These wildernesses are never designed to hurt you, but to grow you. To mature you into the person that God wants you to be, his Son in whom he can be pleased. These times of depression and emptiness are allowing you to be moldable clay in his hands.

When we are in touch with our emotions, we begin to see that we are still in desperate need of someone, something. There is a God-sized void within ourselves that can only be filled with God through Jesus Christ.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, for happiness is fleeting. We can be happy in the morning, and mad in the evening. No, the opposite of depression is the joy of the Lord which is your strength.