“The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back”

Justin Taylor links to some helpful resources on Charles Spurgeon’s battle with depression. Spurgeon, a 19th century English Baptist pastor, is still known as the “Prince of Preachers.” Yet “Spurgeon battled against ‘causeless depression’ his whole life,” Taylor writes:

This “shapeless, undefinable, yet all-beclouding hopelessness,” he wrote, “cannot be reasoned with.” Fighting this type of depression, he said, is as difficult as fighting with mist.

At the bottom of Taylor’s post, note the good resources for pastors and other believers who know “the iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison.”