{"product_id":"2940152092653","title":"Dazzling Secrets for Despondent Saints","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery morning when you wake up you will groan, “Oh, if only it were evening!” and in the evening you will cry, “Oh, if only it were morning!” (De 28:66-67)\u003cbr\u003eDoes that describe you, or perhaps someone you know? Recent surveys suggest that 1 in 6 people will suffer a major depression in their lifetime. Fifty years ago the average age of people suffering from depression was 40; now it has fallen to the mid-20s. Among teen-agers, suicide is one of the most common causes of death; in some areas, it is the second most common cause.\u003cbr\u003eWhat is the best remedy for depression? How can Christians maintain a life of continual victory? These pages will present some key ideas that can lift people out of the gloomy pit and keep them living in the sunshine of God’s love. You may not need help for yourself; yet there are probably people around you who are hurting. With these keys in your hand, you may be able to help them escape from darkness and come into light.\u003cbr\u003eYou may notice the absence of any section in this book dealing with the devil. That is not because I do not recognise his power to destroy human life. I understand full well that he comes, as Jesus said, only “to steal, kill, and destroy” (Jn 10:10). But despite common opinion, Satan is seldom the immediate cause of depression, and I felt he could be safely left out of these pages (apart from an occasional reference here and there.)\u003cbr\u003eIf you want to know more about the devil and demons, you should obtain my book on the subject, Demonology. (1) But here I am content to say only this much: the devil certainly does “go around seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pe 5:8-9), so we do need to take him into account. He may not often be the instigator of melancholy, but he and his minions do often try to take advantage of a gloomy state that already exists. Our duty, knowing that Satan can and does attack the saints (Re 13:7), is to resist him steadfastly in faith (Ja 4:7-8), confident of the victory that we have in Christ.\u003cbr\u003eIn his essay on the art of poetry Horace once said, “It is difficult to express ordinary ideas in a unique manner.” Yet that is what I have tried to achieve in these pages. You will no doubt make your own judgment about whether or not I have succeeded. I certainly hope at least that you will discover here (even if “few and far between”) some “subtle spells” akin to those described by Henry Kendall (2) in a lovely sonnet. He too had abandoned hope of perfection, and of complete originality. He was content in his latter years (as I am myself) to draw upon universal knowledge, and only occasionally to come delightedly upon scenes of wondrous beauty, which no other eye had before seen –\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI proposed once to take my pen and write,\u003cbr\u003eNot songs, like some, tormented and awry\u003cbr\u003eWith passion, but a cunning harmony\u003cbr\u003eOf words and music caught from glen and height,\u003cbr\u003eAnd lucid colours born of woodland light\u003cbr\u003eAnd shining places where the sea-streams lie.\u003cbr\u003eBut this was when the heat of youth glowed white,\u003cbr\u003eAnd since, I’ve put the faded purpose by.\u003cbr\u003eI have no faultless fruits to offer you\u003cbr\u003eWho read this book; but certain syllables\u003cbr\u003eHerein are borrowed from unfooted dells\u003cbr\u003eAnd secret hollows dear to noontide dew;\u003cbr\u003eAnd these at least, though far between and few,\u003cbr\u003eMay catch the sense like subtle forest spells.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vision Colleges","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069580853488,"sku":"2940152092653","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152092653_p0.jpg?v=1764018089","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152092653","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}