I am a Depressed Housewife, What Should I Do?

I want to care again.  Maybe it’s the result of the numbness you spoke of, I don’t know.  But even though good things have happened and I do feel that God has revealed sin to me, I’m still not right.

I want to care that the house needs to be cleaned, that laundry needs to be done, that supper needs to be cooked.  I want to care what I look like…That I need a shower or my hair needs to be washed.  I just feel like nothing matters. Is this depression?

Answer:

In answer to your question, the Lord has brought me to these verses to my mind.  I am praying these verses for you.

Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart’s desires. Psalm 37:4

As you delight yourself in the person of Christ, He will cause you to care again. You will not strive to perform these duties, but will take pleasure in responding to the Lord’s blessings and find fulfillment in the role God has called you to.

And God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel in every good work. 2 Cor 9:8

Because of the cross, because of his grace, because of his power, you will excel in these areas of life.

May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope by grace,

encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good work and word.

2 Thess 2:16-17

That is my prayer for you.

Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus–the great Shepherd of the sheep–with the blood of the everlasting covenant, equip you with all that is good to do His will, working in us what is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Heb 13:20-21