2月17日
章伯斯原著 | 听见录制 | 主播：胡正军
起来吃吧。（王上19：5）
天使没有给以利亚异象，没有向他解释圣经，也没有做什么特殊的事。他只吩咐以利亚做一件最简单的事——起来吃吧。 我们若从不曾沮丧，就不是真正生活过的人，只有水晶体才从不会沮丧。人，是会苦闷低沉的，否则就不会有兴高彩烈了。有些事物是注定往下沉的，就是会死亡的东西。你对自己的评估里，总要把沮丧的可能性计算在内。 神来临，并不是给我们异象，只是吩咐我们做最寻常的事。沮丧往往令我们转离神创造的寻常事物，但神来到，却感动人做最简单的事。我们以为神绝不会在那些事物里面，谁知稍有行动，就发现祂在那里。 这样的感动临到我们，就是对抗苦闷低沉的一种动力。要跟着做该做的，依神的感动去做。反之，若我们故意做什么，企图去胜过沮丧，就只会变本加厉。 我们若照神的吩咐去做，沮丧就会消失。随即可以起来，遵神的旨意去行。这时，已进入生命的另一更高境界了。 ▼ 祈祷 噢，主啊，令我感到惊讶的是，在我外在的生活中，我几乎是完全无力去彰显祢和祢的美善。愿主我的神的美善，在今天临到我身上。
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Taking the Initiative Against Depression 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.Arise and eat. —1 Kings 19:5