Category — Doubt

If you’ve ever been depressed, really depressed, then you know that there is a place inside of you that no man, word, or medication can get to. You can patch it up with these things for a little while—but it is only for a little while. Eventually what has been brewing inside spills out. Like the flow of a swift river, it cannot be stopped. It takes over your entire being. The evidence of which can be desperation, anger, isolation, and deep depression. But, the worst of it, is a hardened heart. It is out of the heart, the Bible says, that these things, these feelings flow. Many of you out there are weary, you’re tired, you want to believe in God but in and of yourself you realize you cannot. There is something both inside of you and outside of you that you have no control over. One is your own heart, and the other is God. You cannot control your own heart because you cannot see it, nor do you fully understand it. And because of your unbelief, you have not been able to rely on the One who can.

The good news is God speaks specifically to you in His word, He says in Isaiah 51:1-2,12-13, “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug. Look to Abraham your father and to Sara who bore you”…“I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass, and have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth,”

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“Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?’ She said to Him. ‘Yes Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world’.

When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, ‘The Teacher is here and calling for you’. And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to Him…Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His feet saying to Him ‘Lord, if you had been here, my brother (Lazarus) would not have died’. When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in His spirit and greatly troubled. And He said, ‘Where have you laid him?’ They said to Him, ‘Lord, come and see’. Jesus wept. So the Jews said, ‘See how He loved him!’  But some of them said, ‘Could not He who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?” (John 11:25-29, 32-36)

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