1 Kings 21:4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite ha spoken to him; for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
The sin of covetousness and greed can lead to lying, stealing, and murder. King Ahab wanted Naboth’s vineyard, which was next to the palace, but Naboth wouldn’t sell it. He became severely depressed because he couldn’t have what he wanted. Jezebel took the problem into her hands, by bringing false witnesses against Naboth, having him stoned to death, and allowing Ahab to seize the vineyard for himself. One sin leads to another to another. The conclusion of the matter was that both Ahab and Jezebel died for their sins.
What started out as depression grew into gross evil. Depression usually has no discernible cause, but sometimes the cause is that we can’t have what we want. The problem may be as simple as the sin of covetousness. I don’t have what I really want, or life isn’t going the way I wanted it to, or I’m just greedy for more than I really need. We feel the loss and the empty hole in our life that yearns to be filled in order to make us happy. We think. The heart becomes heavy and displeased. We pout like a child.
If Depression is caused by a perceived lack of something that isn’t fixed by God coming to fill the void, then the sinful human resorts to sinful behavior. The solution is actually in the Gospel that brings us to God. Sin does not solve the problem of filling the loss of what we wanted; Jesus does, by filling us with Himself, which is what we really need.