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“My soul is in deep anguish. How long, LORD, how long? Turn, LORD, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love” (Psalm 6:3).
“How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?” (Psalm 13:1-2).
I read through my old journals recently, from up to 10 years ago, and it catapulted me into disappointment with God. I was suddenly faced with evidence of years of unfulfilled hopes and seemingly unanswered prayers. There it was right in front of me . . . dreams, desires, pleas . . . in my own handwriting, and all these years later, they were still unrealized.
Even Jesus Himself was challenged by His own mother to “read the room.”
Read the room Prime Minister
In October 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison told ABC employees to “read the room.”
It was in response to the report that ABC employees voted to give themselves a pay rise during the coronavirus pandemic.
Staff at the national broadcaster had been urged to delay a 2 per cent increase for six months. Speaking on radio station 2GB, the Prime Minister was asked if workers at the national broadcaster should read the room. I think so, Mr Morrison said.
Later, Morrison was confronted with this same retort as Indigenous cricketer Dan Christian took aim at the PM as Cricket Australia hit back amid the furore over cricket’s decision to dump the term ‘Australia Day’ for promotional purposes.
For even when we came into Macedonia, our body had no rest at all, but we were troubled in every way – struggles from the outside, fears from within (2 Cor 7:5).
Why should God have to lead us thus, and allow the pressure to be so hard and constant? Well, in the first place, it shows His all-sufficient strength and grace much better than if we were exempt from pressure and trial. “The treasure is in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.”
It makes us more conscious of our dependence upon Him. God is constantly trying to teach us our dependence, and to hold us absolutely in His hand and hanging upon His care.
Ben Courson is a bestselling author, a TV and radio personality, an international speaker, founder of Hope Generation. | YouTube/HopeGeneration
Pastor Ben Courson has shared how his struggles with mental illness and suicidal ideation compelled him to help others understand that they, too, can “defeat the dark lord of depression” with God’s help.
Courson, founder of Hope Generation and Pastor of Applegate Christian Fellowship, recently revealed on “The Crazy Happy Podcast,” a new show from Daniel Fusco and the Edifi Podcast Network, that he understands firsthand what it’s like to feel “broken.”
Though he grew up a happy kid, Courson said that when he entered the ministry at age 18, he began to struggle with depression and began “flirting with suicide.
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