2月17日 冲破苦闷的动力
起来吃吧。（王上十九5）
天使没有给以利亚异象，没有向他解释圣经，也没有做什麽特殊的事；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，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，幷不是给我们异象，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。我们以爲神绝不会在那些事物里面，谁知稍有行动，就发现他在那里。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，若我们故意做什麽，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你和你的美善。愿主我的神的美善，在今天临到我身上。
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.
