Depression hurts. Currently in the US pharmaceutical companies are running advertisements for different medications for the treatment of depression. When one suffers from any level of depression they need encouragement. They need to know someone cares. Even if you are simply feeling “down” or “blue” you need reassurance that someone cares. If you have your moments of self-doubt or if you ever feel alone know the following:

1. Your real friends care – Prov 27:9, “Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.”

2. Your family cares – Matt 7:9-10, “Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?”

3. The Creator cares – Rom 8:31-32, “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?”

4. The Savior cares – John 15:13, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”

BTW — I care too, even if I do not know you personally. I daily pray for you as a reader of this blog.

Scott