![]() ![]() We may also think that the dark night of the soul is something completely incompatible with the fruit of the Spirit, not only that of faith but also that of joy. We move from faith to faith, and in between we may have periods of doubt when we cry, "Lord, I believe, help Thou my unbelief." We ask how a person of faith could experience such spiritual lows, but whatever provokes it does not take away from its reality. Spiritual depression is real and can be acute. This is no ordinary fit of depression, but it is a depression that is linked to a crisis of faith, a crisis that comes when one senses the absence of God or gives rise to a feeling of abandonment by Him. It was the malady that earned for Jeremiah the sobriquet, "The Weeping Prophet." It was the malady that so afflicted Martin Luther that his melancholy threatened to destroy him. It was the malady that provoked David to soak his pillow with tears. This phenomenon describes a malady that the greatest of Christians have suffered from time to time. ![]()
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