The Will

After reading Oswald Chambers'devotional series on Taking the initiative to overcome depression and despair, I realized that God is doing or persuading me to do things that I wasn't willing to do due to the dissapointment and despair.I thought the task to overcome despair is HUGE. However, what God led me to do was easy tasks. Because He want me to stand up then walk, then run....for the price.

"There will be experiences like this in each of our lives. We will have times of despair caused by real events in our lives, and we will be unable to lift ourselves out of them. "

But, Jesus simply said,

Rise, let us be going
—Matthew 26:46

That's simple. Stand up and walk, and eat and LIVE.

Here is the natural rule that Chambers found.The evil tries all means to drag us away from the grace of God, but God uses the simplest way to help us out.The only action for us to take is TO BE WILLING.

"Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things-things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there. "

Yes, God, I am willing. Please keep me going with YOU.