So I was in the thick of depression
Overwhelmed by feelings of failure
Fear, fear that I was ruining my kids
Ruining my salvation somehow
Even though I would tell you on paper
I didn't believe that I could lose my salvation
I felt such a wedge being driven between me and God
In that season
That I was pretty sure I was responsible for
But there was just this suffocating feeling of heaviness
And there was a night where
It just became so overwhelming
And I went out on the front porch and
Sat on the steps
And the Spirit brought to mind Romans 8:11
It says, "If the Spirit of Him
Who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you
He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead
Will also give life to your mortal bodies
Through His Spirit who dwells in you"
And really the miracle of believing
Because it was apart from feeling
But just powered by the grace of God
The pursuit of God in my life
He gave me belief in that moment
That, though I was struggling with depression
And grief, and felt distance
That it wasn't gonna last forever
That He was working in it