2月17日 衝破苦悶的動力
起來吃吧。（王上十九5）
天使沒有給以利亞异象，沒有向他解釋聖經，也沒有做什麽特殊的事；他只吩咐以利亞做一件最簡單的事——起來吃吧。我們若從不曾沮喪，就不是真正生活過的人；只有水晶體才從不會沮喪。人，是會苦悶低沉的，就是會死亡的東西；你對自己的評估裏，總要把沮喪的可能性計算在內。
神來臨，幷不是給我們异象，只是吩咐我們做最尋常的事。沮喪往往令我們轉離神創造的尋常事物，但神來到，卻感動人做最簡單的事。我們以爲神絕不會在那些事物裏面，誰知稍有行動，就發現他在那裏。這樣的感動臨到我們，就是對抗苦悶低沉的一種動力；要跟著做該做的，依神的感動去做。反之，若我們故意做什麽，企圖去勝過沮喪，就只會變本加厲；我們若照神的吩咐去做，沮喪就會消失。隨即可以起來，遵神的旨意去行。這時，已進入生命的另一更高境界了。
祈禱◆噢，主啊，令我感到驚訝的是，在我外在的生活中，我幾乎是完全無力去彰顯你和你的美善。願主我的神的美善，在今天臨到我身上。
February 17 The Initiative Against
Depression
“Arise and eat.” 1 Kings 19:5
The angel did not give Elijah a vision, or explain the Scriptures to
him, or do anything remarkable; he told Elijah to do the most ordinary thing,
viz., to get up and eat. If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it
is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed. A human being is capable of
depression, otherwise there would be no capacity for exaltation. There are
things that are calculated to depress, things that are of the nature of death;
and in taking an estimate of yourself, always take into account the capacity
for depression.
When the Spirit of God comes He does not give us visions, He tells us to
do the most ordinary things conceivable. Depression is apt to turn us away from
the ordinary commonplace things of God’s creation, but whenever God comes, the
inspiration is to do the most natural simple thing – the things we would never
have imagined God was in, and as we do them we find He is there. The
inspiration which comes to us in this way is an initiative against depression;
we have to do the next thing and do it in the inspiration of God. If we do a
thing in order to overcome depression, we deepen the depression; but if the
Spirit of God makes us feel intuitively that we must do the thing, and we do
it, the depression is gone. Immediately we arise and obey, we enter on a higher
plane of life.
