But let's push a little bit deeper. That's where the story of Jonah comes to our rescue. God called Jonah to be His man in the city of Nineveh. V. 3 tells us that Jonah reached down into his jeans to pay the fare to go in the opposite direction to which God called him. Have you ever calculated the high cost of being depressed.
Depression floods our lives with gloom and pessimism.
This causes us to make mountains out of molehills. People shy away from us when we're gloomy, pessimistic and that makes us lonely. Being lonely can be expensive. Let me assure you, it doesn't have to be that way. We focus on our loneliness which makes us more gloomy and pessimistic which makes us more angry and lonely and more depressed.