Saturday, July 21, 2012

Disppointment leads to depression

A friend of mine once told me that his mum has been suffering in depression for a long time. He shared with me how this affected the entire family. It had been a very difficult season for the family and my friend had been struggling on a daily basis to keep up with the turmoil at home.

Looking at the entire family get torn down was painful and yet a mystery. I asked my friend one day, how did his mum fall into depression. He told me the most bizarre story ever. His mum had suddenly fallen ill and was asked to go through a battery of tests to understand what was going wrong. The reports  got considerably delayed and caused her a great deal of anxiety. Finally, when the reports came through they were all clear and by then his mother fell into depression because of the unreasonably long wait.

A reason so trivial can alter a person's life and rob one of the abundant life JESUS died to give us. Ever so often I too am guilty of mismanaging and exaggerating my emotions. I give my feelings and my fears the highest place and way too much importance. When someone says something mean and hurtful I rehearse it so many times in my mind and repeat it so many times with my lips that its difficult to forget it even when I really want to.

Mismanaged disappointment leads to depression. And the only way to manage disappointment is to give it to JESUS. HE asks us to give HIM all of our disappointments, cares, burdens and laborings because...
1. HE cares enough to handle them
2. HE is strong enough to fight them
3. HE is wise enough to solve them

So why wait, why waste time let's just let HIM be GOD and handle our GOD sized trials from now on :-)

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Seemingly Defeated

Have you been in a situation when you were seemingly defeated by time, circumstances or people like Abraham, Moses and Joseph ?

Have you been in a situation when GOD seemingly answered the prayers of the person who caused you great harm ? And you were seemingly dishonored as a result of this ?

Very often life is seemingly disappointing like Jacob's. All things were seemingly working against him. And like Joseph's who encountered an unending string of seemingly disappointing situations.

For both of them like many of us these series of seeming disappointments  are in reality GOD fulfilling HIS countless, sands on the shore outnumbering, infinite like the stars in the sky thoughts and plans towards us. And HE gift wraps these and then surprises us with unexpected answers through unexpected resources at an unexpected time.

Ps Atul Haksar once said in a moment GOD promoted Joseph from a prisoner to a Prime Minister. And in fact all things were working together for the good of Joseph, Jacob, their family and the entire nation of Israel. What the devil was doing to cause destruction JESUS was using for their good and HIS glory.

Just want to encourage you to do what I am doing even as I go through my seemingly disapppointing days. Through the last 6 months all I've done is 'Being Still and getting to know HIM  - as GOD'