Encouragement in Times of Depression –Psalm 42

Posted on April 12, 2019 by dkoop

What do you do when your tears are your food day and night?

3  My tears have been my food day and night

What do you do when people taunt you and speak against you?

…while men say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

When we find ourselves facing discouragement and depression, how do we find encouragement?

In the last post we saw one step to encouragement is to Worship God.  Being with the people of God, who are singing and praising lifts us when we are down.  The word of God also encourages us and is a part of our worship.

The next step to encouragement is to Remember what God has done in the past.

My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you

This is a strong expression of determination. The psalmist is determined to remember how God has helped him in the past. That is one of the greatest things we can do when we begin to experience depression.  Think back to what God has done for us in the past.  Remember how God was there for you in the past.  Remember those who prayed for you. Remember how God has answered your prayers in the past.  Remember the day that you gave your life to Christ.  Remember when you were baptized.  Remember the times that God was faithful to you.

Have you ever known someone that has a habit of remembering only the bad things? They date everything by these negative events. “That was the day the toilet overflowed.  And that day is the day my cat ran away.”  That’s no way to live.

But here the Psalmist is showing us that memory can be an important aid by remembering the positive experiences of God’s blessing. “I will remember you,” he says, the times when God caused my heart to be full of joy.

Last year for Kaleb’s senior year and last year at home we went skiing at spring break. Kaleb and I would ski until the lifts closed but the girls would often go back to the car early and wait for us. They would rest and listen to the radio.

On the third day when Kaleb and I got down there and tried to start the car it wouldn’t start, the battery was dead. I immediately went to the office to see if they could give me a jump start. They said all their employees were busy closing down lifts, processing ski returns, etc. and it would be two hours before they could help.

I went back to the car opened the hood and started to wait.  Not long after a man parked near us, a friendly Texan asked if I needed jumper cables.  We got the car started and were delayed about an hour going down the mountain.  On the way down we saw police cars and a cleanup crew. We later found out that there had been a severe accident involving multiple cars.  Several people were dead and injured. If we had left at the time I wanted, we would have been part of that accident. Now when I find myself with a frustrating delay, I remember that God may be delaying me for a specific purpose

 The next portion of this poetic passage needs some explaining..

My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon–from Mount Mizar.
7  Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.

He remembers an experience that he had when he was in the northern part of Israel near Mount Hermon, at the head of the Jordan River, on a little peak of the range where Mount Hermon is located, called Mount Mizar (which, incidentally, means “little mountain”).  Snow from Mount Hermon would melt flowing down to form the Jordan river that would then flow into the Sea of Galilee. On that occasion he could hear the waterfalls of that mountainous region with thundering cascades. He became aware of how they seemed to be calling to one another, “deep calling unto deep,” and it reminded him that the deeps in God call out to the deeps in man.

One of the amazing things about nature is the silent voices that call to one another across vast spaces. The moon calls to the deeps in the sea, raising the tides. Twice a day the waters rise in tides across the earth, because of the moon calling to the ocean. The sun and the rain call to the deeps in a seed, causing it to stir with life and to spring up and grow. There are vast distances that call to the deeps in wild birds, causing them to wing their way across long distances to lay their eggs; there are voices that call to certain fish, sending them across the sea to spawn up into a mountain stream. In this way the Psalmist is reminded that God also calls to man. There are deeps in God that correspond with deeps in man, and he calls to them. The Psalmist specifically names two here: the deeps of the love of God, and the joy of God, calling out to the corresponding deeps of prayer in the believer.

Which leads us to the next way we are encouraged in times of depression; Prayer.

In the last post, I shared about Abraham Lincoln and his struggles with depression and how he found help in God’s word and in attending church, but he also depended on prayer. Perhaps Lincoln’s most famous words on the subject of prayer reflect an awareness of his great responsibility and personal inadequacy: “I have been driven many times upon my knees,” he once confided in an associate, “by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.”

The psalmist has the same conviction…

8  By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.

In the next verses we will see the Psalmist prayer.   It’s honest, it’s real and its raw. Do you feel you can be completely honest with God in prayer?  Can you tell God how you really feel?  The Psalms tell us it’s ok to be angry with God, to be frustrated and share hurts with God.

9  I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”
10  My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Years ago on a Sunday morning after the service I left for home, Danielle was still at church but I thought she was with Niki.  Niki thought she was with me, so we went home and left her. Of course, as soon as we reached home we realized our mistake and I came right back. I found her waiting for me, tears in her eyes and with disappointment  in her voice she said, “Daddy, you forgot me!” What a horrible feeling it is to be forgotten!

That is the feeling expressed here, and what a terrible feeling it is. How honest and real.

The first step to overcoming depression is to admit it. The psalmist readily admits, both to himself and to God, that he is in despair.

There is a saying that I agree with, “Without revealing, there is no healing.”  We must be honest and open to get better.  Prayer is the revealing that leads to healing.

As the Psalm ends and his prayer ends, he moves from Talking to God to talking to himself.

11  Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him,

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, a doctor who became a pastor in his book, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure ([Eerdmans], pp. 20-21), comments,

“Have you not realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning. You have not originated them, but they start talking to you, they bring back the problems of yesterday, etc. Somebody is talking. Who is talking to you? Your self is talking to you. Now this man’s treatment was this; instead of allowing this self to talk to him, he starts talking to himself….

The main art in the matter of spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself. You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself. You must say to your soul: ‘Why art thou cast down’–what business have you to be disquieted? You must turn on yourself, upbraid yourself, condemn yourself, exhort yourself, and say to yourself: ‘Hope thou in God’–instead of muttering in this depressed, unhappy way. And then you must go on to remind yourself of God, Who God is, and what God is and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do. Then having done that, end on this great note: defy yourself, and defy other people, and defy the devil and the whole world, and say with this man: “I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance, who is also the health of my countenance and my God”.

We find encouragement from God’s Word, God’s People, Remembering the good God has done and Praying to God.

I hope that you may be encouraged this week.

Darrell

www.Upwards.Church

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Depression and the Bible – Psalm 42

Posted on April 10, 2019 by dkoop

At a local Jr College the Psychology professor asked his class to read a chapter on mental health.  In order to see what they learned he asked, (hoping to get the answer, “manic depression”),  “How would you diagnose a someone who walks back and forth screaming at the top of his lungs one minute, then sits in a chair weeping uncontrollably the next?”

A student in the back of class raised his hand and answered, “A basketball coach?”

We may think that story is funny but depression is no laughing matter.  According to Very Well Mind, 16.2 million adults in the United States, equaling 6.7 percent of all adults in the country—have experienced a major depressive episode in the past year.  15 percent of the adult population will experience depression at some point in their lifetime.

What is depression? According to Bridges to Recovery, clinical depression and major depressive disorder, is a type of mood disorder that is characterized by negative patterns of thoughts and emotions. Depression causes intense sadness that persists. It causes physical pains, changes in eating and sleeping habits, irritability, difficulty thinking, concentrating and making decisions, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

It should not be surprising that the Bible has much to say about depression, especially in our Psalm today, Psalm 42. The Psalmist meets the definition of being severely depressed.  He is not alone, neither are we.

Note the psalmist’s description of himself: He mentions his countenance (42:11). A depressed person looks sad or down. A loss of appetite and frequent crying are often present (42:3). He describes his anguish as “pouring out” his soul (42:4); he felt emotionally drained. He felt as if he were in the deep, being overwhelmed by the waves (42:7). Often depressed people feel overwhelmed by circumstances to such an extent that they are immobilized. They don’t know how to cope or where to begin.

The enemy’s relentless taunts felt like a shattering of the psalmist’s bones (42:10). Often physical symptoms such as headaches, digestive disorders, and chronic pain accompany severe depression. He repeatedly describes himself as being in despair (hopeless) and disturbed (anxious; 42:5, 6, 11). The psalmist feels abandoned, even rejected by God, and he’s confused by it (42:9). Feelings of guilt and rejection are common symptoms of depressed people. In addition are often fatigue, a loss of motivation to do anything, difficulty in concentrating, sleep disturbances (either insomnia or excessive sleep), and thoughts of suicide.

Many people in the Bible suffered through depression and suicidal thoughts:  Naomi, Job, Jeremiah, (known as the weeping prophet) Elijah, David, Jonah. and even Jesus encountered a time of depression.  Some well-known Christian ministers encountered times of depression. Martin Luther, Charles Spurgeon, John Knox, John Bunyan, Lottie Moon, and even Rick Warren have mentioned specific times in their ministries when they encountered depression.

While some Christians will want to deny that they can go through depression, it does happen. And it happens quite often.

It’s been described that going through depression is like walking down a staircase into a dark basement.  The sun may be shining outside but it feels dark inside.  In addition the person can’t see the base of the staircase to get back out.

Have you ever felt this way?  I go through periods where I don’t enjoy things I used to enjoy; like working in the yard.  I’ve had my doctor test me twice for depression and I’m not clinically depressed but by her definition, “mildly depressed.”  For me I have to watch what I eat, exercise, make sure I deal with loss and disappointment appropriately,  manage job stress and ask for others to help since I have a tendency to take on too many things at once.   I’ve discovered that many of us have periods of mild depression, seasonal depression or high numbers on The Stress Scale due to life’s experiences, but if the depression or stress leads to you not being able to handle daily activities for two weeks  please see your doctor as I did.

Here are 3 steps to take, that God uses to encourage us in times of depression. 

  1. God Encourages Me as I Worship Him.

2 …“When can I go and meet with God?”…  4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng.

 “Meeting with God” and being with others in “the house of God” among those singing with joy and expressing positive emotion will help in our times of low emotion.   The very thing we may not want to do, such as be around other people, and sing are the very things that we need the most.

Psalms were originally songs that were sung in public worship gatherings.  People say, “I can worship God on the golf course, on my boat or in nature,” which may be true but there is also something very powerful, exponential, contagious and encouraging about being with other people worshiping God.

We may not want to sing but being around others that sing will lift our spirit.  When I attend church and see toddler age kids and preschoolers (I don’t have any at this stage in my life), their energy and faith speaks to me.  When I see others that have hard periods in life such as: troubled marriages, finances or health issues but they continue to come their faith inspires me and encourages me.  I need the faith, energy, positivity from others when it is lacking in me.  God uses people, praise, His presence and His word to encourage us when we are discouraged.  We can’t get out of the basement ourselves, so God gives us light.

Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was severely depressed and even suicidal?   Here are some quotes from associates and friends:

His law partner William Herndon said, “His melancholy dripped from him as he walked.”

Robert L. Wilson, who was elected to the Illinois state legislature with Lincoln in 1836, said one day Lincoln told him something surprising. “he told me that he was so overcome with mental depression, that he never dare carry a knife in his pocket.”

Lincoln “told me that he felt like committing suicide often,” remembered Mentor Graham, a schoolteacher, and his neighbors mobilized to keep him safe. One friend recalled, “Mr Lincoln’s friends … were compelled to keep watch and ward over Mr Lincoln.” [i]

What changed for the future president?  His friend Joshua Speed’s mother gave him a Bible in 1841.  When Mr. Lincoln returned to the judicial circuit that fall, he wrote Speed’s sister: “Tell your mother that I that I intend to read it regularly, it is really, as she says, the best cure for the ‘Blues’

Lincoln said, “In regard to this Great book, “it is the best gift God has given to man.”

Lincoln biographer William E. Barton wrote that Mr. Lincoln “read the Bible, honored it, quoted it freely, and it became so much a part of him as visibly and permanently to give shape to his literary style and to his habits of thought.”

In a letter to his old friend Speed, Lincoln wrote, “Take all of this book upon reason that you can and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier and better man.’” Lincoln scholar Wayne Temple wrote: “Lincoln had greatly modified his religious beliefs since 1841. It appears, the longer Lincoln lived, the closer he felt to God and the more he relied upon God for sustenance.’ [ii]
Lincoln met with God and it changed his life as read the bible, attended church and prayer meetings weekly.

Like president Lincoln we can be encouraged by God as we do the same.  I too have been greatly encouraged as I read the Bible and see that I am not alone in my times of depression.

In the next post we will see two more steps God uses to encourage us as we face depression.

Darrell

www.Upwards.Church

 

[i] http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/abraham-lincoln-in-depth/president-lincolns-moods/

[ii] http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/abraham-lincoln-in-depth/abraham-lincoln-and-the-bible/

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The Shelter of God’s Power – Psalm 95 – Part 2

Posted on April 3, 2019 by dkoop

The same hands that hold the universe together will hold you together.

In the last post we examined what worship is (assigning ultimate value to something),  how to worship (with all our heart, mind, strength and soul)  and why (God is a sovereign or supreme king) and in this post we will see two more why’s.  First,  God is a Powerful Creator.

4  In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.
5  The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

God created the depths of the earth’s molten core and the heights of Mount Everest. Every part of the earth and sea were created by God.

It’s a shame that in today’s culture that we even have to defend the fact that God is our creator.  It should be so evident when you have a design it points to a designer.

Think about it, if you asked a friend, “What kind of phone is that, Samsung or Apple? If they said, “I had several pieces of metal in my pocket and they jingled around in there for about a week and then I pulled it out and it was this phone!  The accidental by chance phone?  I would look at them as if there’s something the matter with them!  If you have another friend and asked, “Where did you get that car? And they said I was driving by the junkyard and there was a tornado and after the tornado passed there was this car ready to go!” Again, if it were my friend, I would think they’re out of their mind.  Yet there are those that try to say that the living organisms we see, the laws of physics, the incredible design of life from the micro level to massive level of vast the universe (which have WAY more design than phones are cars) just happened by accident? And we’re supposed to accept that?  I see great design in all the earth, its life and in our universe and I hope that you do too.

God is a powerful creator, but He’s also a personal creator.

6  Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;
7  for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.

 God is not only a powerful creator who created the universe, He is a personal creator who created you.

The same hands that hold the universe together will hold you together.

The same God who created a beautiful world created a beautiful you.

Those are good reasons to worship God.

Lastly, God is a Righteous Judge.

As this Psalm ends it seems negative.   Some commentators I read and listened to wished that they could add a positive ending to this psalm.

We go from worship to warning. We see God as creator to now God as judge.

Let’s look at it…

Today, if you hear his voice, 8  do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert, 9  where your fathers tested and tried me, though they had seen what I did.
10  For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.” 11 So I declared on oath in my anger, “They shall never enter my rest.”

What’s going on here? This event mentioned took place in Exodus 17.  God had delivered the people out of slavery in Egypt.  They had seen 10 powerful plagues against the Egyptian gods, they saw God part the Red Sea, they had received quail and Daily Bread from heaven called Manna. They had seen the pillar of Fire to guide them, yet one day they didn’t have enough water.  Instead of saying, “God, you have been faithful and have provided for us yo this point, we need some water.”  They complained, they acted if God didn’t exist. They gave God an ultimatum, “give us water or we’re done with you.”  Most were done and wanted to go back to Egypt again.   “Meriba” means quarrelling in Hebrew, “Massah” means testing, both of which the people did to God.

This event is mentioned over 11 times in scripture:  three times in Numbers, twice in Deuteronomy and 2 more times in Psalms (81 & 106) as a warning of how NOT to act. It’s easy to think,  “This is Old Testament this doesn’t apply to us!” We are a New Testament people.  Actually this event is also referred to in Hebrews 3 and 1 Corinthians 10. It does refer to us.

Here’s how:

We all have two choices to make: we can either “hear” and respond to God, or secondly we can “harden our hearts” and not believe. “Today” is the day to believe. We’re not guaranteed tomorrow.

If we “harden our hearts,” it is revealed by complaining, testing God and a perpetual state of wandering leading to frustration and anger from God. We can have God’s rest or Gods anger, which will we choose?

I choose to listen to God.

This Psalm seems to end negative but to me it’s positive because of Christ.

It reminds me of the story of a little boy that was very handy with his hands and he was really good at building things. One day he created what he thought was his masterpiece. He made a beautiful sailboat that he was so proud of; he was so excited to take it down to the river to let it sail.  He build it so well and it sailed so well that it quickly sailed out of his grasp.  He ran as fast as he could along the riverbank but the little boat sailed away.  He was heartbroken and I thought he’d lost his sailboat. A few weeks later when he was in town he saw his beloved sailboat there in the window of a store! He went into the store and told the store owner, “that’s my sail boat, I made it. May I have it back?”  The store said, “No people say that all the time, if you want this sail boat, you have to pay the price.”  The boy was sad because it would take him two weeks work to be able to buy back his sailboat.  He quickly went home, got to work earning the money and eagerly came back two weeks later.  He paid the listed price and as he was leaving was filled with emotion.  He looked down at the sail boat and said, “My beloved boat, you are twice mine! Not only did I make you I also bought you!”

This is exactly what Jesus has done for each of us: he created us and then he bought us by dying on the cross for us.

Yes God is a righteous judge. But if you’ve ever had a ticket and had to go before a court to pay for your transgression, just imagine that you are getting out your cash, checkbook or credit card about to pay your fine, all of the sudden the judge stands up and says,  “No put that away. I will pay your penalty myself.”

That is exactly what our righteous judge has done.  We have transgressions but instead of being stuck to pay them all, Jesus paid them all!  He paid for our transgressions himself by his death on the cross.   We worship God because he is our Sovereign King he’s a Powerful and Personal Creator and he is a Righteous Judge who takes our judgment if we will allow him to.

Thank you Jesus

Darrell

www.Upwards.Church

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Shelter of God’s Power – Psalm 95 Part 1

Posted on April 2, 2019 by dkoop

The same hands that hold the universe also hold you.

In today’s post we will look God’s power in Psalm 95. The context of Psalm 95 is worship. It shows us HOW to worship and WHY we should worship: God is a powerful creator, a sovereign king and a righteous judge.

First, what is worship? We get worship from the old English “worth-ship.” Worship is assigning ultimate value to something.  We all naturally do this. We can look at a group of cars in the parking lot and say, “that car is worth more than that car.” We can go into a clothing store and look at different types of clothes on the rack and think, “That one is worth more than that one.” We even do this with people.  There is a part of us that knows that others are judging us and placing a value on us by what we do and who we are. How many marriages struggle because one partner says to the other, “you not treating me with the value that I know I deserve?”

We evaluate worth and we assign worth.  Have you experienced that worth of something  can and will change over time?  Watching the TV shows Pawn Stars or Antique Road reveals that many people have something they took for granted, assumed had some value but later found out that it had WAY more value than they once thought.

There’s a story of a lady that had a brooch.  It had been given to her by her mom, and her mom before and it was passed down through the family for years. Most of the time she didn’t know where it was, but one day she found it tucked away in a drawer and thought, “I should get this appraised.” When she took it into a jeweler the jeweler began looking at it with his eye piece (magnifying glass).  As he was examining the color and the way the light was reflecting upon it, he suddenly gasped a deep breath and his eyepiece popped out; he couldn’t believe his eyes!  Why this reaction? He realized that this piece of jewelry was worth more than anything he had in the shop at that moment or anything he would ever have any shop at that moment. This piece of jewelry was priceless worth hundreds of millions of dollars. It must have once belonged to royalty.  The woman had no idea until now.

Would knowing that there were bidders ready to give millions of dollars have the power to change this woman’s life?

Many of us treat God like the way this woman treated the brooch. We say we have God, but He’s tucked away somewhere.  When we realize that God has more way value than we assumed; the realization has the power to change our lives. Every part of our lives: mentally, emotionally, spiritually and rationally.

Let’s dive into the Psalm:

1  Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2  Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.
3  For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods.

“Come” is a powerful Gospel invitation.  The invitation is free to us but cost God everything; by having to send Christ to die for us on the cross. Jesus also issues the same invitation, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

In this passage we see HOW we should worship: “let us sing for joy,” “let us shout aloud.”

 As a kid I attended different churches: my dad’s side of the family was Lutheran, my mom’s parents attended a Presbyterian church, my best friend in elementary school was Methodist, my best friend in high school was Catholic and by 6th grade we attended the Baptist church near our home. If you are familiar with any of those denominations service’s in the 1970’s -90s they were reverent and reserved when it came to public worship.  I did not see a, “shout aloud” or much “singing with joy.”

I’m thankful that our Pentecostal brothers and sisters have influenced our worship styles  so that clapping, raising hands and expressing emotion is more accepted in worship services today.  This is more in line with what the Psalms teach us.  Worship should have emotion.  Love between people is not just an intellectual agreement that works out on paper.   We feel deeply about those we love and love them with emotion.

In times that I have looked at someone worshipping with emotion and thought, “why are they responding like that?” “Is there something wrong with them?” The better question would be, “Why am I not responding like that? Is there something wrong with me?”

Imagine if you were trapped inside of a burning building. Then fireman rushes in breaks down the door and carries you out on his shoulder.  When he sets you down would you not be filled with emotion? Our worship to God should have emotion! We have been saved from a burning building by Christ.

Verse 3, For the Lord is the great God the great king above all gods.” This is not saying that there are other gods.  It’s just acknowledging that any other god that we set up, God is greater, He is more powerful.  He is supreme or sovereign over any other god that we may set up.

We all assign ultimate value to something which then has power over us. We all worship.  Anthropologists confirm that throughout all history, all cultures in all places looked to a higher being or worship something.  We still do today even if its humanism, education, ourselves, money, power, position or relationships.   We we live for becomes what ultimately controls us.

I like the illustration the author Tim Keller gives referring to the first Harry Potter book. Harry finds a mirror, called the “Mirror of Erised.” (It’s desire spelled backwards). Harry looks into the mirror and he’s amazed because he sees his parents. This is amazing to him because his parents have been dead since he was a young child and he didn’t know his parents.  In the mirror Harry sees his parents loving him, hugging him and it touches his heart deeply.  He thinks this mirror is magic and he goes to find his friend Ron Weasley. When he shows the mirror to Ron, he expects Ron to see the same thing; but when Ron looks in the mirror, he says “Wow I’m a famous sports figure! I’m the Headmaster of the school!” They’re both confused about why they saw different things, so they go ask their mentor.  The mentor explained that the mirror shows each person their deepest desires.  He explains that they must put the mirror away or people would “waste away” in front of it.

What would you see when you look into the mirror?  What do I see?  I’ve seen the powerful football player, the sexy guy with nice clothes and car, the successful person with all that I need.  These are all images that shaped me powerfully but left me lacking, wasting away and looking for something more substantial, real and lasting.  I find more substance and power in God and his image of me, not one I craft myself.

If we worship God and assign to Him ultimate value; when we look in the mirror we will see ourselves fully loved, fully accepted,  fully at peace in the arms of a powerful, yet loving God.

God is supreme or sovereign over anything, anyone or any god.  We just need to see Him that way and live that way and it will change our lives.

In the next post we will see that God is also our Powerful Creator and our Righteous Judge.

Darrell

http://www.Upwards.Church

 

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