Description
Discouragement is something that can strike any person at any time and no living person is exempt from it. Exactly what is discouragement? Noah Webster provides an excellent definition of discouragement with this.
1. The act of disheartening or depriving of courage; the act of deterring or dissuading from an undertaking; the act of depressing confidence.
2. That which destroys or abates courage; that which depresses confidence or hope; that which deters or tends to deter from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything. Evil examples are great discouragements to virtue. The revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement.
David, the second king of Israel [sometimes called the sweet psalmist], had his share of discouraging situations and, during one of those we read about how he handled it. “. . . but David encouraged himself. . .
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