The Minister’s Fainting Fits, has proven to be one of the most personally helpful chapters in Spurgeon’s Lectures to My Students. There he writes:
Knowing by most painful experience what deep depression of spirit means, being visited therewith at seasons by no means few or far between, I thought it might be consolatory to some of my brethren if I gave my thoughts thereon…It is not necessary by quotations from the biographies of eminent ministers to prove that seasons of fearful prostration have fallen to the lot of most, if not all of them.
I am one of those ministers that battles seasons of deep depression. (I’ve chronicled my struggle elsewhere).
These “fits of melancholy” can be quite confusing to the pastor. In the
midst of darkness we are pressed to wonder how in the world we will
deliver a sermon on Sunday morning, counsel the struggling, and lead the
faithful. I’ve said with John Piper, “Have mercy on me. I must preach
on Sunday, and I can scarcely lift my head.” Continue at Mike Leake
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