God is my Healer

"I will exalt you, Lord,

for you lifted me out of the depths

and did not let my enemies gloat over me.

Lord my God, I called to you for help,

and you healed me.

You, Lord, brought me up from the

realm of the dead;

you spared me from going down to the pit.

~Psalms 30:1-3

Last semester was the roughest, toughest,  and longest semester of my life. I went through a extremely bad depression. I took a survey in the counseling center at App State, and on a scale from 1-25 (1 being not depressed and 25 severely depressed), I was a 23. My emotions were all over the place. I couldn't control my thoughts. Life was just miserable. I was alone, scared, lost, hurt, broken, and away from God. My relationship with Christ before my depression was one of hypocrisy and going through the motions. I did not understand what it meant to be a follower of Christ.

It was through that rough time that God healed me. God showed me his love and pulled me up from the realm of death. Over the course of the summer, my relationship with Christ grew tremendously. God constantly showed his love to me. He filled me with an abundant amount of joy. Going from a place of being torn and broken to where I am now, God has healed me more than I could have ever imagined. God has provided some amazing people in my life, and He has really worked through them to help me out. This semester (no longer depressed) every time the devil has tried to bring back my past, God has always provided scripture, friends, family, or whatever to remind me that He is my healer and that He is watching out for me.

This semester has been 30275406530 times better than last semester. My mood has completely changed, and it is all because of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! I am realizing how blessed I am, and how much God loves me as well as the people around me. God has not only healed me, but He is using what I went through to reach out to other people going through similar situations. I do sometimes get upset, but I mean what person doesn't? I do, however, know that God is in completely control and there is nothing that God can't overcome. Death has lost its sting!

Going from last semester to where I am now, I know that my God is mighty and willing to save! God is my healer!!!