This is hardly the response that should come after seeing Scriptures which deal which this issue.
There is nothing personal here, but if Christians consistently walk by faith, then Christians need not despair or be depressed.
ROMANS 8
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can beagainst us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
As a rule, I do not disclose my trials and tribulations publicly. But if anyone has reason to despair or be depressed, it is this poster. But God has NOT given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Therefore I neither despair nor allow depression (which is Satanic oppression) to dominate me. And I have never taken any medication in this respect either, since it is a spiritual issue, which can only resolved by the Holy Spirit and the Word of God.
You are right. It is a great testimony that you are joyful in the Lord always and do not despair. Agree Christian’s need not despair...but that doesn’t mean some of us don’t sometimes. We all walk different paths of growth. There are scriptures that speak specifically to brokenness:
Psalm 34:18-20
[18] The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. [19] Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. [20] He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Psalm 51:17
[17] The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Matthew 5:3-4
[3] Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. [4] Blessed are they that
mourn: for they shall be comforted.
2 Corinthians 7:6-7
[6] Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus; [7] And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your
mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.
James 4:8-11
[8] Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. [9] Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to
mourning, and your joy to heaviness. [10] Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. [11] Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
And there is also: Ephesians 4:30
[30] And
grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.