Finding God In Your DepressionSample

  

Day 3

Perhaps you are now tired of the journey you’ve been on with depression. It’s been a roller-coaster ride that hurts so badly, perhaps you think not continuing life is better than moving forward. In the Scriptures, Job’s experience of intense suffering led him to regret the day of his birth. But his story doesn’t end there. Job begins to see God differently and it brings him hope and many blessings.

Pray

God, I don’t want to spend another day like this. Please change things for the better.

Read 

Job comes to the end of a long journey of pain and sorrow with a fresh perspective about God.

Job 3:11; 42:1-6, 12 

Reflect

At one point in Job’s life his torment is so severe that he wishes he had died in his mother’s womb. But after intense dialogue with his friends and with God, Job realizes that what others have told him about God doesn’t line up with his own experience with God. His conclusion is that God “can do all things” (ESV) including turning his dark days around. Do you believe God can do the same for you? Why or why not?

Respond

Write out Job 42:2 on a post it or in your journal. Make it a song and sing it to yourself when you feel low in spirit.