{"id":4257,"date":"2009-03-18T22:57:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T02:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=76"},"modified":"2009-03-18T22:57:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T02:57:37","slug":"the-initiative-against-depression-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/03\/18\/the-initiative-against-depression-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE INITIATIVE AGAINST DEPRESSION"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Arise and eat.<\/p>\n<p>     &#8212; 1 Kings 19:5<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The angel did not give Elijah a vision, or explain the Scriptures to<br \/>\nhim, or do anything remarkable; he told Elijah to do the most<br \/>\nordinary thing, viz., to get up and eat. If we were never depressed<br \/>\nwe should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be<br \/>\ndepressed. A human being is capable of depression, otherwise there<br \/>\nwould be no capacity for exaltation. There are things that are<br \/>\ncalculated to depress, things that are of the nature of death; and in<br \/>\ntaking an estimate of yourself, always take into account the capacity<br \/>\nfor depression.<\/p>\n<p>When the Spirit of God comes He does not give us visions, He tells us<br \/>\nto do the most ordinary things conceivable. Depression is apt to turn<br \/>\nus away from the ordinary commonplace things of God&#8217;s creation, but<br \/>\nwhenever God comes, the inspiration is to do the most natural simple<br \/>\nthing &#8211; the things we would never have imagined God was in, and as we<br \/>\ndo them we find He is there. The inspiration which comes to us in<br \/>\nthis way is an initiative against depression; we have to do the next<br \/>\nthing and do it in the inspiration of God. If we do a thing in order<br \/>\nto overcome depression, we deepen the depression; but if the Spirit<br \/>\nof God makes us feel intuitively that we must do the thing, and we do<br \/>\nit, the depression is gone. Immediately we arise and obey, we enter<br \/>\non a higher plane of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arise and eat. &#8212; 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}