Dealing with Spiritual Depression | Rapp Report Daily 0126 | Striving for Eternity

Spiritual Depression and the Problem of Being Stuck in the Past

Welcome to The Rapid Pull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

This is a ministry of striving for eternity, as we continue to look at issues with the church. We'd like to take a look this week at, well, what's something that the Puritans used to refer to as melancholy, something that Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones referred to as spiritual depression.

Have you had that time where you just don't feel like being at church? You don't want to be doing things that you know you should. You don't want to read your Bible. You don't want to pray. You just feel depressed.

You don't feel that you should be worshiping God. This is something that many Christians experience, and many don't have any idea how to deal with it. Like any other type of depression, you first need to have hope that you will get out of this and be able to see a future where you won't be stuck in this rut.

Most of the time with any kind of depression, that's why I like that Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones referred to it as a spiritual depression, because what it does is it talks about the fact that we're stuck in the past.

That's what happens with depression. You are stuck in the past thinking, and usually the cause of spiritual depression is either sin, that's number one, or there is some issue. Maybe it's bitterness. Well, yeah, that's sin too, but more specific types of sins that you need to address.

Causes of Spiritual Depression: Sin and Bitterness

I'd like to take a little bit of time this week to address some of the different things that can keep you from being spiritually vibrant and get you into a depression, and then what type of things to do to fix it.

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