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I'm thinking today of the short verse in 2 Corinthians 7 verse 6.

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It says, but God who comforts the depressed comforted us by the coming of Jesus.

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God, I see you are a God who comforts the depressed.

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If there is comfort in God and depression, then why do some people go into depression

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and not find comfort?

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Is it because they are not looking for God?

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Is it because like Pharaoh, their hearts are hardened and the solution is unthinkable and

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they have remained there and not met God face to face?

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Is it because God has allowed an evil spirit to torment them as he did Saul?

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These things, the reasons why, they are beyond my full knowledge.

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As we must proceed having not met God face to face, I can only imagine.

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I don't know what looking at all the things of this world, questioning why they are the

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way they are can do to us when we are depressed without the comfort of God.

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I'm of a mind to say that everybody gets depressed eventually or at some point.

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I'm also of a mind to think that this depression is something different than what doctors are

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calling clinical depression.

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This is a fact.

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God comforts the depressed.

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It's true that God is our way up and out of every difficult situation.

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Even if we are taking medicine, attending counseling or working a plan for depression,

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we should be going to God and consistently.

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Notice too that his methods are his own.

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Wrapped up in that little word by in this verse is the idea that he can do it by his

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chosen method and in this case, the coming of one of his servants.

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But in our lives, it might be through the counseling, through the medication, through

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our experiences or by confiding in a pastor or a doctor.

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Find the help that God has prepared for you.

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If you're in depression, get the help you need and give God the glory.