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DEPRESSION: What Does the Bible Say?
What Makes This Book Worthy of Your Time?
The Bible is the ultimate authority on life, so it is the first place we should look, to find answers to our questions about depression. But the Bible is a lengthy and complex book, and those answers are buried within its covers. So—the main purpose of this book is to help uncover those answers, and to offer my understanding of what the Bible teaches about depression.
But, I want this book to provide you with more than my understanding of what the Bible teaches. I also want you to read for yourself the relevant Bible verses concerning depression. Therefore, a second purpose of this book is to quote the relevant Bible verses. That way, you can decide for yourself what the Bible teaches about depression.
Either Get Angry at God or Turn to Him
When depression and other causes of suffering turn our world upside down, it leaves us with the choice to either be angry at God or to turn to Him for help. Depression and other types of affliction often tempt us to blame God for our suffering. It can also bring us down so low that we have no place else to go than to do business with God.
Severe Depression Wrecks Lives
With depression, you can lose some or all of the things you hold dear. Especially in severe cases, it can rob you of your health, energy, hope, job, career, marriage and family, custody of your children, good reputation, finances, friends, dreams, desire to live, and things like that. Only God can restore those things for you, as He did for Job (42:10-17)
Questions To Be Addressed in This Book
The only way you can find joy and peace in the midst of suffering is through a saving relationship with Jesus Christ, and through the Bible. The Scriptures are the only place you will find satisfactory answers to the following
Why is this depression happening to me?Is there a purpose for my suffering, and if so, what is it?Why won’t God heal me?Why does God seem so far away?Why has God not answered my prayers?Does God understand how badly I am suffering?Should I take man-made pharmaceutical drugs for depression?How can I find peace in the midst of depression?How can I find joy in the midst of depression?What does the Bible say about depression?If you are searching for answers to the above questions, this book will help you to find them in the Bible.
The Bible is the ultimate authority on life, so it is the first place we should look, to find answers to our questions about depression. But the Bible is a lengthy and complex book, and those answers are buried within its covers. So—the main purpose of this book is to help uncover those answers, and to offer my understanding of what the Bible teaches about depression.
But, I want this book to provide you with more than my understanding of what the Bible teaches. I also want you to read for yourself the relevant Bible verses concerning depression. Therefore, a second purpose of this book is to quote the relevant Bible verses. That way, you can decide for yourself what the Bible teaches about depression.
Either Get Angry at God or Turn to Him
When depression and other causes of suffering turn our world upside down, it leaves us with the choice to either be angry at God or to turn to Him for help. Depression and other types of affliction often tempt us to blame God for our suffering. It can also bring us down so low that we have no place else to go than to do business with God.
Severe Depression Wrecks Lives
With depression, you can lose some or all of the things you hold dear. Especially in severe cases, it can rob you of your health, energy, hope, job, career, marriage and family, custody of your children, good reputation, finances, friends, dreams, desire to live, and things like that. Only God can restore those things for you, as He did for Job (42:10-17)
Questions To Be Addressed in This Book
The only way you can find joy and peace in the midst of suffering is through a saving relationship with Jesus Christ, and through the Bible. The Scriptures are the only place you will find satisfactory answers to the following
Why is this depression happening to me?Is there a purpose for my suffering, and if so, what is it?Why won’t God heal me?Why does God seem so far away?Why has God not answered my prayers?Does God understand how badly I am suffering?Should I take man-made pharmaceutical drugs for depression?How can I find peace in the midst of depression?How can I find joy in the midst of depression?What does the Bible say about depression?If you are searching for answers to the above questions, this book will help you to find them in the Bible.
124 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 14, 2025
About the author
Lee Woodruff
29 books237 followersIn addition to Those We Love Most (Sept 2012) Lee Woodruff is co-author of New York Times bestselling In an Instant & author of a series of essays Perfectly Imperfect. She is correspondent for CBS This Morning and has written numerous articles for Ladies Home Journal, Redbook & Parade. She & her husband co founded the Bob Woodruff Foundation which assists wounded veterans & their families. They reside in Westchester County with their four children.
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