Biological depression is, a "darkness that is "felt." What do you do when you can't feel God?

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If you have heard this blog and you are depressed, this particular blog should be very helpful.  It is from the book, Broken Minds hope for Healing When You Feel like You're Losing it.
The copy right is (2005) . But it should be said that the contents of this book are as relevant today as when it was first written. Why! Because it is not faddish. It  has "Staying Power."

At one of my lowest moments, when concentrating on anything 
seemed impossible, the third verse  of one William Cowper's famous hymns,
"There is a fountain filled with blood."was able to hold my attention: Here are the words:

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace,                                          Behind a frowning providence, He hides a smiling face. Finally, he says; blind unbelief is sure to err, and scan His work in vain,God is His own interpreter;And He will make it plain.

The above picture about suicide is not in the
book, Broken Minds

My circumstances and disappointments, my very brain storm, were saying to me, “God is frowning on you.” The day was dark . . . very dark. But God was working out His plan, His sovereign will. As Jacob said when he could not be comforted over the reported death of his son Joseph, “All these things are against me” (Gen. 42:36). His heart and his circumstances gave him this analysis of his situation. Like many saints through the ages, Jacob was learning an important lesson about God as our Comfort in the midst of pain we cannot understand.

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He would be the firstborn among many brethren. (Rom. 8:28–29)

God Delays: God’s Power
Again the Word of the Lord states in 1 Peter 5:10–11: 

“After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen ,and establish you; to Him be dominion forever and ever. Amen” (emphasis added).
Suffering seems to go on forever, but when it is over, God often gives us some view of the purposes He has accomplished.

             

The words of A. B. Simpson (1843–1919) have been  very instructive; The pressure of hard places makes us value life. Every time our life is given back to us from such a trial, it is like a new beginning, and we learn better how much it is worth and make more of it for God and man. The pressure helps us to understand the trials of others, and fits us to help and sympathize with them.There is a shallow, superficial nature, that gets hold of a theory or a promise lightly, and talks very glibly about the distrust of those who shrink from every trial; but the man or woman who has suffered much never does this, but is very tender and gentle, and knows what suffering really means. This is what Paul meant when he said “Death worketh in you.”Trials and hard places are needed to press us forward, even as the furnace fires in the hold of that mighty ship give force that moves the piston, drives the engine and propels that great vessel  across the sea in the face of the wind and waves. My weakness my feelings of panic, and depression, my bewilderment at what I was becoming and what was to become of us. . Somehow, in a way.I could not  appreciate, all of it was part of the divine plan of a loving almighty Father.This insert can be found in the book, Broken Minds Hope For You feel Like  You're Losing It.  Please see pp.67-71.

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