Category: Overcoming Sadness

Psalm 42:11 (NKJV) 11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.

To be cast down means to be saddened, depressed, or discouraged.

It happens even to believers.

When my dad passed on to Heaven and then my younger brother also passed shortly after, it brought me into a state I had never felt or been in before.

I experienced a lot of different emotions and I really did not know how to adjust.

Keeping my hope in Him is what helped me when I was down and out, when I was lost for words about why I felt the way I did. You can’t explain some things that you feel.

But God knows, and I found myself clinging to Him more and more for help, answers and strength.

As I continued to do my usual daily things, I still needed to pay attention to what I felt.

Many people suffer from things that have happened to them, and they totally ignore the sadness, depression, and/or discouragement that they feel as a result of these things.

And they never heal completely because of this.

We need to heal completely, or bits and pieces will still be there and they surface throughout different times of the year. A certain song, or being in certain place can trigger feelings that we might not even know are there.

The feelings come up all over again and we don’t know how to handle it, so we just push through it, hoping it will go away and get better on its own.

It can change our attitude quickly without us even recognizing it. In times when we should be the most joyful and thankful, we may not even feel like celebrating or have any feeling of happiness whatsoever.

Happiness is lost in the heaviness of the saddened heart.

Hiding away, or trying to drown the pain will not help this feeling go away. Only God can bring life back into that broken, saddened heart. Our hope in Him will bring healing and joy once again.

Let God help us come out of that place. Put one foot in front of the other.

God will lead us out of the state of sadness, and into happiness once again if we just stop hiding it and start lifting Him up in praise no matter how we are feeling at that moment! Amen.

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