He must become greater; I must become less.
[John 3:30 NIV]
Dave Romero of CO3 shares about a depression he went through and how he needed to “increase” God in his life, moving from selfishness to selflessness. Also, CO3 sings a capella the song Dave wrote about his struggle with depression.
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CHAD LITTLE: I was a worship pastor of a church, had some things in my life that I felt weren’t right, this is about ten years ago, and decided that it was time for me to step down from the position as full-time worship pastor and spend some time getting to know God. In that time I kind of went into somewhat of a depression and I’m just remembering crying out to God, wondering why I was in this depression and out of that came a song that I wrote called “More of you, Less of me.” The Bible says that He must increase, we must decrease. And so that word of Him increasing in my life and coming from selfishness to selflessness helped change that situation. I was in a really deep depression, and out of that verse, knowing that if I gave everything to God and continued to move from selfishness to selflessness, then that verse really pulled me out of that depression. And I wrote a song on it, so it was pretty awesome. It’s just a personal testament, we do it in concert all the time, break it down, just me and him, and I share that testimony of how God can take that situation and now turn it around and use it as an impact in many people’s lives when we’re out on the road. Because there‘s a lot of people who suffer from depression, and you know medication and all that stuff, I’m not against that, but I know that if you truly give your life over to God that he can continue to pull you out of those things that try to keep you down.
DAVE ROMERO: Change me, use me. Show me how to live my life in honor to you, Lord. Break me, feel me with your loving tenderness that I will show you more. More of you, and less of me. Open up my eyes, that I may see. Consume me with your spirit, take control of me. More of you, and less of me.
March 8th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Dear CHAD LITTLE and DAVE ROMERO:
“Depression” being an epidemic in ‘America the Beautiful’, I sincerely pray that your compelling testimony will raise the awareness to “…take control of me. More of you, and less of me”
While there are physical bases for the devastating disease of “depression,” such as a commonly accepted theory that the imbalance of serotonin and norepinephrine affects one’s core mood and pain symptoms, very often, if not more often than not, however, is resulted from one’s negation of “You SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND. THIS IS THE GREAT AND FOREMOST COMMANDMENT.” (Matthew 22:37-38)
Self indulgence and self-centeredness in a materialistic world limit and distort our larger than life vision. Instead of progression toward the greater good, we regress into a meaningless, and thus self-destructive, hopeless, and powerless world of isolation and apathy.
May GOD ALL MIGHTY Bless you; and
GODSPEED in spreading the much needed Gospel of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!
Mary Sun.
March 20th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
I have been feeling depressed for awhile now, and am struggling with changing things in my life to end these feelings. And I am inspired by the thought that I need more of God and less of me!! It is so true!! I need to stop focussing all the time on how bad I feel, hand over my feelings to the Lord, and change my focus to Him!! I need more of him!! Thank you for sharing that. I have a feeling that this is really going to help change my life!! Praise the Lord!