0217 采取主动对抗抑郁
起来吃吧！《列王记上19:5》
这段经文中的天使并没有给以利亚异象或向他解释圣经，或做任何值得注意的事。祂只是告诉以利亚去做一件很平常的事，就是起来吃东西。如果我们从未沮丧，我们就不是活着——只有物质的东西才不会遭受沮丧之苦。如果人类没有能力抑郁，我们就没有能力快乐和欣喜。生活中有些事情是被设计来让我们沮丧的，例如，与死亡有关的事情。每当你检查自己时，总是要考虑你的抑郁能力。
当神的灵降临到我们身上时，祂并没有给我们荣耀的异象，但祂告诉我们去做能想象到最普通的事情。抑郁容易把我们转离神创造的日常事物。但每当神介入时，他的灵感就是做最自然、最简单的事情——是我们从未想象过神在其中的事，但当我们做的时候，我们发现祂就在那里。以这种方式临到我们的灵感激/励是对抗抑郁的一种主动性，但我们必须迈出第一步，并在神的灵感/激励中去做。然而，如果我们只是为了克服抑郁而做某些事情，我们只会加深抑郁。但当神的灵引导我们本能地去做某事时，我们做的那个时刻，抑郁就消失了。只要我们起身并顺服，我们就进入了生命更高的境界。
来自章伯斯的智慧
人类的选择是在两者中间做出的；开始和结束都在神手中。神的命定是生于死，在生死之间，人类制造了自己的痛苦或欢乐。《上帝手之荫》
0217 Taking the Initiative Against Depression
Arise and eat. —1 Kings 19:5
The angel in this passage did not give Elijah a vision, or explain the Scriptures to him, or do anything remarkable. He simply told Elijah to do a very ordinary thing, that is, to get up and eat. If we were never depressed, we would not be alive— only material things don’t suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. There are things in life that are designed to depress us; for example, things that are associated with death. Whenever you examine yourself, always take into account your capacity for depression.
When the Spirit of God comes to us, He does not give us glorious visions, but He tells us to do the most ordinary things imaginable. Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things— things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them, we find Him there. The inspiration that comes to us in this way is an initiative against depression. But we must take the first step and do it in the inspiration of God. If, however, we do something simply to overcome our depression, we will only deepen it. But when the Spirit of God leads us instinctively to do something, the moment we do it the depression is gone. As soon as we arise and obey, we enter a higher plane of life.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy. — Shade of His Hand, 1223 L