Chapter 28. Famous People Who Suffered
Loneliness And Depression
Job: The Trials And Tribulations Of Depression, Despair,
And Dejection
In his days of darkness, Job bewailed his birth:
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was
said, There is a man child conceived. Let that day be darkness; let not God
regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Let darkness and
the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the darkness of
day terrify it…..Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the
ghost when I came out of the belly?….For now should I have lain still and
been quiet. I should have slept; then had I been at rest, with kings and
counselors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves; Or with
princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver; Or as a hidden
untimely birth I had never been; as infants which never saw light. There the
wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.
Job’s final statement to God shows not only his depressed state, but
more importantly, his submission to God: “Wherefore I abhor myself, and
repent in dust and ashes.” Then his restoration begins, and he regains
friends and family members, prosperity, children , and a long life. The
Bible tells us after this, Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his
sons, and his son’s sons, even four generations. So Job died, being old
and full of days. Christian singles, I imagine, in day dreams of heaven,
that the line in front of Job’s mansion in heaven never ends, as those who
have passed on in the Lord stop by to praise and thank him from the bottom
of their hearts, for giving them strength to see their earthly sorrows
through. Job’s determination teaches us the greatest lesson of all; no
matter what happens to us here, in this brief moment in time, a glorious
eternity awaits those who are faithful to the end. His faith never shined
so
brightly as when he declared;
“though He slay me, yet will I trust in
Him.” That’s faith!
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