0217 採取主動對抗抑鬱
起來吃吧！《列王記上19:5》
這段經文中的天使並沒有給以利亞異象或向他解釋聖經，或做任何值得注意的事。祂只是告訴以利亞去做一件很平常的事，就是起來吃東西。如果我們從未沮喪，我們就不是活着——只有物質的東西才不會遭受沮喪之苦。如果人類沒有能力抑鬱，我們就沒有能力快樂和欣喜。生活中有些事情是被設計來讓我們沮喪的，例如，與死亡有關的事情。每當你檢查自己時，總是要考慮你的抑鬱能力。
當神的靈降臨到我們身上時，祂並沒有給我們榮耀的異象，但祂告訴我們去做能想象到最普通的事情。抑鬱容易把我們轉離神創造的日常事物。但每當神介入時，他的靈感就是做最自然、最簡單的事情——是我們從未想象過神在其中的事，但當我們做的時候，我們發現祂就在那裡。以這種方式臨到我們的靈感激/勵是對抗抑鬱的一種主動性，但我們必須邁出第一步，並在神的靈感/激勵中去做。然而，如果我們只是為了克服抑鬱而做某些事情，我們只會加深抑鬱。但當神的靈引導我們本能地去做某事時，我們做的那個時刻，抑鬱就消失了。只要我們起身並順服，我們就進入了生命更高的境界。
來自章伯斯的智慧
人類的選擇是在兩者中間做出的；開始和結束都在神手中。神的命定是生於死，在生死之間，人類製造了自己的痛苦或歡樂。《上帝手之蔭》
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