Chapters 9, 10, 11This week, I’m going to leave the commentary of our reading to you—so your comments are, as always, very important. In these chapter, Martin and Gracia continue to live on the edge of life during their ordeal in and we see new emotional lows a for them as well as a break through.
Gracia writes honestly of a crisis of faith that she goes through during this particular passage of time.
- In your opinion, what brought on the crisis and what led to its being resolved?
- Have you ever had a crisis of faith? What led to it?
- What helped you resolve it? Or—is it resolved?
Maybe you are continuing to live in a place where you are angry with God, or feeling deeply separated from Him. I hope you’ll share your honest struggle so we can pray for you.
2 comments:
depression and probably physical exhaustion seems to have brought on her crisis of faith. When exhausted & depressed it is so much easier to believe Satan's lies. I think the depression came when her expectations of God didn't live up to the reality she was feeling. I think it helped her come out of it when she realized that it was depression and it wasn't helping but making things worse. I also think that it helped that she could think about what she said about not believing that God loves her when she did believe he died on the cross.
I had a fairly long period of deep depression after an armed robbery my first year in Kenya. It was so easy to believe Satan's lies and be apathetic about all of life. It seemed to me that God didn't live up to his part of the bargain. My expectations and understanding of God were being questioned and I didn't do so well with it. I think realizing that it was depression helped me a lot in coming out of it. I also know that my focus got skewed and I was not looking to the Lord. When I started trying to reach out to him more, I began to feel better about myself and where I was. One of the big ways I did that was through singing hymns. I couldn't come up with words to express how I felt - often I didn't know myself. So, the old hymns said them for me and reminded me that I really believed those things. It helped the apathy dissipate and it helped me come up with my own words to speak to the Lord.
Hi, Lynn... I'm thankful you were able to share with us the tools God used to bring you out of depression. Your insights about lies is so important. I really feel we don't believe enough in the lies--that they're really there, or that they can impact us to the point of causing depression. We need to be aware, don't we.
Thanks for reading with me!
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