#Very downcast face series
#Very downcast face free

There may be a number of reasons for your depression:. In verses 5 and 11 David asks, ”Why?…Why am I like this?” - and we may ask the same question.

#Very downcast face free

It is very noble in these circumstances to go about with a smile on our face, to give the impression that we are free from worry - but we should be honest and frank with ourselves about our true condition. Notice that David did this, as verses 5 and 6 make clear. But of course you must not stay alone with yourself, otherwise you will become more depressed than ever. This is the first step if you would be delivered from your depression. Life is so hectic and there is so much noise everywhere! Have you been alone with yourself lately? What a strange situation! It must be remedied. David did this, and it is evident that he got alone with his own soul - compare verses 4 and 5. It will help to get alone to some quiet place. What should we do then? What should you do? Study this psalm carefully to see that when David was downcast he took action in seven ways, and as he did this he experienced deliverance from his depression. This is wrong too, for when we are depressed some action is needed. (4) We may do nothing at all about it and just let the depression go on.Of course, there is good therapy in sharing our burden with someone else, and there is a great ministry that we can exercise towards those who are depressed by seeking to help and encourage them, but when we are downcast we must be careful that we do not become a constant nuisance to other people. (3) We may burden others with our troubles.Christians should not be grumblers - look up Exodus 16:8. It is also very easy at such times to feel that everything is wrong, and to say so! - but we must not do this. Should we do this? No, a thousand times, no! This is the easiest thing to do when we are depressed, just to feel sorry for ourselves and to become completely preoccupied with ourselves. Spurgeon said, ‘Most of the Lord’s family have travelled the path which is here so graphically described… This psalm is eminently calculated to instruct those pilgrims whose road to heaven is of the same trying kind as was the writer’s.’ This leads us to ask, what should we do when we are downcast? It would be true to say that very few Christians escape the experience of depression, and writing of these verses C. They were obviously written at a time when this great man of God was very downcast. How grateful we must be that the psalmist David knew what it was to be depressed, despondent and dejected, otherwise we would have been deprived of many of his most helpful psalms! Two of these which are placed side by side are Psalms 42 and 43.

#Very downcast face series

Series 55 Study 6 WHY ARE YOU DOWNCAST, O MY SOUL?