Symptoms may include extreme feelings of happiness and deep despair. Fluctuations in mood can vary by minute, week or even months at a time. These emotions have been reported as powerfully motivating and have resulted in Hollywood suicides.
Medication may be described.
Drugs can veil the emotions, or even flip them completely backwards. If something is despairingly wrong, street drugs or even some prescription drugs can float your mind to “never land” where everything feels warm and fuzzy.
The only adverse affects involve the aftermath. Coming down can be one of the most emotionally destructive feelings. This may result in overdose as patients choose not to deal with reality.
What if we embraced the highs and lows of life with Faith. Blind faith. Unbelievable faith. Indescribable, incomprehensible faith. Reckless, careless faith. All rooted and grounded in the incorruptible power of God. He is the unchangeable, unstoppable, fearless, mighty, compassionate, fully capable God of the Universe. Hoping in Him will never fail, and the outcome is always sure and profitable.
What if we realized that in our coming down moments that God was still with us? What if we stopped asking “Why is this failure happening” and started asking “How can this failure along with God’s power teach me?”
In Luke 9:28-45 Peter, James and John surely felt defeated as they saw Jesus transformed before their eyes and then the next day heard that their fellow disciples had lacked the ability to do what Jesus specifically empowered them to do. They were faced with defeat and probably second thoughts. What if this happened to them? What if what they just saw wasn’t real? What if…
In these moments we must force ourselves to faith. Faith that the failure will teach us and that God is not disappointed but lovingly jealous. He wants us to have more than we want, if we would only believe. We must chose to float out into “faith-land” where we believe God can do anything and will do everything for His glory and our eternal benefit.
Mandy
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Mandy,
What a great reminder to me that God "wants us to have more than we want, if we would only believe." My human short sightedness often limits me to shallow belief, as it did the disciples, but I really would like to have "indescribable, incomprehensible faith" This reminds me of I Cor. 2:9 "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him." God has bigger plans than we can imagine for those who are sold out for Him.
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