Clarification

It has come to my attention that some people wonder if I am ok, if I am seeing a counselor and if I am seeking medication. I want to answer these questions. I am doing great most days. If you know anything about depression, there are bad days and good days. I am working hard to make each day a God day. Because that way, whether it is good or bad, I can still sing praises to my Lord. It is a daily struggle, but yes I am OK.

As to seeing a counselor my answer is also a yes. Jesus is the only counselor I need.

Isaiah 9:6 – “For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

I know people think I should be talking to a qualified person, who spent much to many years earning a piece of paper that says they know a thing or two, but I am talking to the only person who created that thing or two in the first place. Does he answer back in a voice I can hear? Not always, sometimes its a video on YouTube, or a random link that somehow made it to my computer screen. Any way you look at it though, Jesus is listening and helping me settle my problems.

From here.

If you have read all the way through any of my posts about depression, you will always see the turn around to Jesus. Depression, for me, grows in the times when I think of myself and my wants instead of the Jesus and his wants. So as I always say, keep Jesus centered in your life and constantly work hard in doing what he wants and even the worst days can become God days.

Am I taking or seeking medication? No. I take a few things that greatly help, with no side effects that I have noticed. I do not need to take something that very often increases the depression symptoms. Instead of treating the symptoms, like Americans so seem to love to do, I am trying to treat the disease. I am trying to go beyond what I am feeling and change the core of it. I am trying to take the depression out and put even more God in. I am not in anyway bashing or criticizing medical help for depression. I have heard some very good results from it, but I do not feel it would help me. If it is working or worked for you, I am so very glad to that it did. I will support anyone who does try it. But for me, and only me, I find my brightest days, days where I find me most alive, are the days that I actively cling onto God keep him in my life, front and center and make him my center piece of all that I do.

It is at the foot of the cross where we find all of our value, worth, meaning and life. It is there we find peace that this world cannot give us. It is at the cross where we can be ourselves, be happy in all we do, and sit with Jesus and have him heal all wounds. The cross was a symbol of horrific torture, but for me, as it should be with all Christians, it is a symbol of all that I am not, and all that he is, and all I want to be through him. It is a symbol of salvation, life and eternity.

So I want people to know, when I post these blogs, I am telling you my feelings and I am telling you at the end of all of them, how important it is for God to be our everything. Jesus is my everything, what else can I want. He gives me rest restoration. Even when I am in the darkest valleys of shadows and death, I will fear nothing, and there is nothing I cannot overcome, for the Lord of everything guides me so that I will not stumble. He is my comfort in a weary world. He is the only cure to my troubled soul. He cares for me even in the midst of my enemies. He gives me all I could need and cares for me. He always makes sure I have enough of everything. He will be with me for the rest of my life, and I will live with him forever in worship and praise.