Feeling Sad

Unfortunately, feeling sad, alone and miserable can be both naturally, and spiritually
detrimental to your life. For example, during difficult times in your life, you may be
tempted to make decisions about your future and to make estimates about your
abilities based on how you feel at that moment. But understand that your reality or
view of a situation, when you are feeling depressed, and do not have the energy to
focus on anything else but the crisis of the moment, is not always accurate. Now, I am
not saying that what you are thinking or feeling is not important.
However, when we are depressed or in the middle of a crisis, we can become so focused
on the present problem, that we can forget that hope is still available. For example, it
may be true that you made a mistake, that your wife left you, that you do not have a lot
of money, that you lost your job, or that you are not as smart as someone else.
However, it is not true that you “always make mistakes,” that you “can never do anything
right,” or that “things will never work out for you.”
If you are continually telling yourself that things in your life will “never work out,” or you
are meditating on how hopeless your life is, then those thoughts must be challenged.
It’s hard to believe that God loves you and that you are fearfully and wonderfully made
if you think of yourself as a perpetual loser. Supportive people can help to keep you
focused on the goodness of God and help you to challenge negative thoughts. Don’t
have any supportive people in your life? Then pick one faith-filled word or scripture
from the Word of God and then begin to meditate on it. The Word of God lets us know
that wherever two or three are gathered together in His name, there will He be in the
overcome anything. So despite how negative things may look in your life at this
moment, because of Jesus Christ they do not have to stay that way.  (igbatt.com/ALegree, COPYRIGHT 2019)