GET UP AND EAT ELIJAH

   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., 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 CALCULATED TO DEPRESS, THINGS ARE THINGS, THAT OUR OF THE NATURE OF DEATH; AND IN TAKING AN ESTIMATE OF YOURSELF, ALWAYS TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE CAPACITY 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----GOD'S CREATION, BUT WHENEVER GOD COMES THE INSPIRATION IS TO DO THE MOST NATURAL SIMPLE THINGS----THE THINGS WE WOULD NEVER HAVE IMAGINED GOD WAS IN, 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 RISE AND OBEY, WE ENTER ON A HIGHER PLANE OF LIFE. "LET THE PAST SLEEP, BUT LET IT SLEEP ON THE BOSOM OF CHRIST, AND GO OUT INTO THE IRRESISTIBLE FUTURE WITH HIM." 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 TOMAKE US DESPAIR , AND WE SAY-----" IT IS ALL UP NOW, IT IS NO USE OF TRYING ANY MORE."  IF WE IMAGINE THAT THIS KIND OF DESPAIR IS EXCEPTIONAL, WE ARE MISTAKEN, IT IS VERY ORDINARY  HUMAN EXPERIENCE.  WHENEVER WE REALIZE THAT WE HAVE NOT DONE THAT WHICH WE HAD A MAGNIFICENT OPPORTUNITY OF DOING, THEN WE ARE APT TO SINK INTO DESPAIR; AND JESUS CHRIST COMES AND SAYS----"SLEEP ON NOW, THAT OPPORTUNITY IS LOST FOREVER, YOU CANNOT ALTER IT, BUT GO TO THE NEXT THING." LET THE PAST SLEEP, BUT LET IT SLEEP ON THE BOSOM OF CHRIST, AND GO OUT IN THE IRRESISTIBLE FUTURE WITH HIM. THERE ARE EXPERIENCES LIKE THIS IN EACH OF OUR LIVES.  WE ARE IN DESPAIR, THE DESPAIR THAT COMES FROM ACTUALITIES, AND WE CANNOT LIFT OURSELVES OUT OF IT. THE DISCIPLE IN THIS INSTANCE HAD DONE A DOWNRIGHT UNFORGIVABLE THING; THEY HAD GONE TO SLEEP INSTEAD OF WATCHING; WITH JESUS, BUT HE CAME WITH A SPIRITUAL INITIATIVE AGAINST THEIR DESPAIR AND SAID "ARISE AND DO THE NEXT THING?  TO TRUST  HIM ABSOLUTELY AND TO PRAY; THAT THE FALSE TEACHERS "SATAN' USES TO CONFUSE CHRIST CHILDREN BE GONE! IF WE ARE INSPIRED OF GOD, WHAT IS THE NEXT THING? TO TRUST HIM ABSOLUTELY AND TO PRAY ON THE GROUND OF HIS REDEMPTION. REMEMBER, NEVER LET THE SENSE OF FAILURE CORRUPT YOUR NEW ACTION.  "RISE, LET US BE GOING" MATTHEW 26:46. IF WE DO  ISAIAH TELLUS IN 60: 1 "ARISE," MY PEOPLE! LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE FOR ALL THE NATIONS TO SEE! FOR THE GLORY OF THE LORD IS STREAMING FROM YOU. DARKNESS AS BLACK OF NIGHT HAS OVERCOME CHRIST SPIRIT COVERING  HIS
 PEOPLE OF THE EARTH. DREAMING ABOUT A THING IN ORDER TO DO IT PROPERLY
 IS RIGHT; BUT DREAMING ABOUT IT WHEN WE SHOULD BE DOING IT IS WRONG. AFTER THE LORD HAS SAID THESE WONDERFUL THINGS TO HIS DISCIPLES, WE MIGHT HAVE EXPECTED THAT HE WOULD TELL THEM TO GO AWAY AND MEDICATE OVER THEM ALL. IN LIFE, ONCE ON A PATH, WE TEND TO FOLLOW IT, FOR BETTER OR WORSE. WHAT'S SAD IS THAT EVEN IF IT'S THE LATTER, WE OFTEN ACCEPT IT ANYWAY BECAUSE WE ARE SO ACCUSTOMED TO THE WAY THINGS ARE WE DON'T EVEN RECOGNIZE THEY COULD BE DIFFERENT AND WE ENTER A HIGHER PLANE OF LIFE. THE DISCIPLES WENT TO SLEEP WHEN THEY SHOULD HAVE KEPT AWAKE, AND WHEN THEY REALIZED WHAT THEY HAD DONE " IT IS PRODUCED DESPAIR, AND WE SAY------ " IT IS ALL UP NOW, IT IS NO USE TRYING ANY MORE." IF WE IMAGINE THAT THIS KIND OF DESPAIR IS EXCEPTIONAL, WE ARE MISTAKEN, IT IS VERY ORDINARY HUMAN EXPERIENCE WHEN EVER WE REALIZE THAT WE HAVE NOT DONE THAT WHICH WE HAD A MAGNIFICENT OPPORTUNITY OF DOING, THEN WE ARE APT TO SINK INTO DESPAIR; AND JESUS CHRIST COMES AND SAYS-----"SLEEP ON NOW, THAT OPPORTUNITY IS LOST FOREVER, YOU CANNOT ALTER IT, BUT ARISE AND GO TO THE NEXT THING." LET THE PAST SLEEP, BUT LET IT SLEEP ON THE BOSOM OF CHRIST., AND GO OUT INTO THE IRRESISTIBLE FUTURE WITH HIM. THERE ARE EXPERIENCES LIKE THIS IN EACH OF OUR LIVES. WE ARE IN DESPAIR, THE DESPAIR THAT COMES FROM ACTUALITIES , AND WE CANNOT LIFT OURSELVES OUT OF IT. THE DISCIPLES IN THIS INSTANCE HAD DONE A DOWNRIGHT UNFORGIVABLE THING;  THEY HAD GONE TO SLEEP INSTEAD OF WATCHING WITH JESUS, BUT HE CAME WITH A SPIRITUAL INITIATIVE AGAINST THEIR DESPAIR AND SAID ----"ARISE AND DO THE NEXT THING." IF WE ARE INSPIRED OF GOD, WHAT IS THE NEXT THING?" TO TRUST HIM ABSOLUTELY IN FERVENT PRAYER AND TO PRAY ON THE GROUND OF HIS REDEMPTION. NEVER LET THE SENSE OF FAILURE CORRUPT YOUR NEW ACTION.

















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