God and Mental Health: Can You Have Faith and Still Struggle?
Breaking the Silence: For a long time, conversations about mental health in faith communities were whispered, avoided, or even silenced. There’s this unspoken pressure that if you trust God, you should always be okay. But the truth is, you can love Jesus deeply and still battle anxiety, depression, fear, or exhaustion. Faith does not make you immune to struggle—it gives you strength in the midst of it. Biblical Perspective: Faith and Brokenness Can Coexist; The Bible is full of people who walked closely with God yet wrestled with deep emotional pain: David, a man after God’s own heart, cried out in despair many times. “My tears have been my food day and night…” (Psalm 42:3) Elijah, a powerful prophet, once prayed that he might die, saying, “I have had enough, Lord.” (1 Kings 19:4) Even Jesus, in His humanity, wept, felt deeply troubled (John 11:35, John 12:27), and cried out on the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46) God never rebuked them for expressing ...