God, Scripture and Despondency
If you do battle with feelings of gloom and thoughts of hopelessness you are not alone. The Bible tells many a story about God's children getting stuck in the Slough of Despond, to borrow a phrase from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. We see Elijah sitting under the broom-tree begging God to take his life (1 Kings 19:4). We hear David's painful words: "I am utterly bowed ...
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