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Depression is a painful, and difficult condition that many people go through. A short, impersonal response like this would not be the best medium to work through something as personal as this, and hence, we would suggest the person asking the question to approach someone from our church, a homegroup leader, a Deacon or perhaps and Elder to talk through the issues.

There are a variety of causes for depression. It could be a physical condition that can be diagnosed clinically. It could also be psychosomatic, or have spiritual causes. What we do know is that, although God created the world good (Genesis 1-2), because of man’s rebellion against God (Genesis 3), the world is not in the shape that God had intended in the beginning. The fall is terrible and pervasive. It affects even our physiology, and our psychology. But, we have hope that Jesus has overcome the fall by taking God’s punishment for sin on our behalf. The Christian clings to the hope that when Jesus returns, He will wipe away all tears and restore joy to the full (Revelation 21:4). We can have a foretaste of that now here living as God’s people on earth, but the full fulfillment of our hope and joy is when Jesus comes, for sure one day! With that hope in mind, we can have joy even in the midst of our deepest afflictions (1 Thessalonians 1:6).