Bible Examples And Bible Solutions

If it is a chemical imbalance that is bringing on a depression, we need to find a good doctor that can help us. If it is a sin problem, you can take every pill in the country and it will not help you. You will be like the woman in Mark that steadily got worse.

The drug companies are doing everything they can to get us hooked on their drugs.

Illus: Reader’s Digest ran an advertisement for Paxil, an anti-depressant (Reader’s Digest, 2/03). It began with these words; “Do you have…

• Depressed Moods

• Loss of Interest

• Sleep Problems

• Difficulty Concentrating

• Agitation

• Restlessness

“If you’ve experienced some of these symptoms nearly every day, for at least two weeks, a chemical imbalance could be to blame. And life can feel difficult ALL DAY."

Listen, let’s be honest, most of us will admit we have experienced all these symptoms at some time. To read this advertisement, you would conclude we all are living in a GREAT DEPRESSION, and we better head to the doctor as fast we can and get our prescription before they run out.

The drug companies in America are getting richer and the people of this nation are getting poorer when it comes to health problems.

Let me repeat; Depression can be a very real problem. But after about 40 years of working with Christians and non-Christians, I believe that one of the biggest problems is that people are looking in the wrong place for help. They are trying to live their life without God, and God is showing them they are making a mess of things in the process.

WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?

Illus: A preacher told his congregation he wanted everyone to go home and think about something they wanted him to preach the next night. They all arrived, and he asked this young man that looked like a hippy, with tattoos all over his body, “Young man, what do you want me to preach about tonight?” He said, “I want you to preach about pills!” The preacher thought for a minute and said, “There are all kinds of pills:

• There are purple pills

• There are green pills

• There are yellow pills

• There are short pills

• There are long pills

• There are skinny pills

• There are fat pills

But he said, Tonight, I want to preach to you about the GOS-PILL.”

I believe preachers across this nation, without apology, should stand up in the pulpits and say to the medical profession, “We have tried it your way and you have turned this society into a bunch of walking ‘Zombies.’ What you are doing is not working. People are not getting better with your drugs, they are getting worse!”

I have never seen a person that had any kind of problem, turn to the Lord Jesus with all their heart, and not get the help they needed. Preachers across America need to stand up and proclaim that what the WORLD NEEDS NOW IS THE “GOSPILL” OF CHRIST JESUS!

The Word of God gives us -

I. A BIBLE EXAMPLE

Elijah ranks as one of the greatest men in the Old Testament, yet we find this great man of God became so depressed he wished he were dead.

In 1 Kings 19, we see that Elijah experienced some of the classic symptoms of a GREAT DEPRESSION!