{"id":4324,"date":"2009-04-19T23:04:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T03:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=77"},"modified":"2009-04-19T23:04:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T03:04:19","slug":"the-initiative-against-despair-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/04\/19\/the-initiative-against-despair-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE INITIATIVE AGAINST DESPAIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Rise, let us be going.<\/p>\n<p>     &#8212; Matthew 26:46<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The disciples went to sleep when they should have kept awake, and<br \/>\nwhen they realized what they had done it produced despair. The sense<br \/>\nof the irreparable is apt to make us despair, and we say &#8211; &#8220;It is all<br \/>\nup now, it is no use trying any more.&#8221; If we imagine that this kind<br \/>\nof despair is exceptional, we are mistaken, it is a very ordinary<br \/>\nhuman experience. Whenever we realize that we have not done that<br \/>\nwhich we had a magnificent opportunity of doing, then we are apt to<br \/>\nsink into despair; and Jesus Christ comes and says &#8211; &#8220;Sleep on now,<br \/>\nthat opportunity is lost for ever, you cannot alter it, but arise and<br \/>\ngo to the next thing.&#8221; Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the<br \/>\nbosom of Christ, and go out into the irresistible future with Him.<\/p>\n<p>There are experiences like this in each of our lives. We are in<br \/>\ndespair, the despair that comes from actualities, and we cannot lift<br \/>\nourselves out of it. The disciples in this instance had done a<br \/>\ndownright unforgivable thing; they had gone to sleep instead of<br \/>\nwatching with Jesus, but He came with a spiritual initiative against<br \/>\ntheir despair and said &#8211; &#8220;Arise and do the next thing.&#8221; If we are<br \/>\ninspired of God, what is the next thing? To trust Him absolutely and<br \/>\nto pray on the ground of His Redemption.<\/p>\n<p>Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise, let us be going. &#8212; Matthew 26:46 The disciples went to sleep when they should have kept awake, and when they realized what they had done it produced despair. The sense of the irreparable is apt to make us despair, and we say &#8211; &#8220;It is all up now, it is no use trying&#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-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324","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=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}