Taking the Initiative Against Depression

Oswald Cambers, MY (UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST: 2/17/09 http://www.myutmost.org/ (Select Feb. 17)"Arise and eat" (1 Kings 19:5). Chambers today helps us get a grasp on our humanity and that is that "There are things designed to depress us." Depression gets our attention. No, I haven't done anything specifically sinful, but am I allowing the "Spirit of God to direct me to do the most ordinary things imaginable"? I must rememember that God has my back and He knows when I am drifting. He knows when I am too focused on surviving the demands of my service to remember that it is only in Him that I find my strength, wisdom, patience, endurance, etc.....all the things I need to be a good nanny to Morgan and Walker, not to mention a good wife and mother. Beth Moore in her PRAYING GOD'S WORD DAY BY DAY suggests that it is our pride that permits us to even think we can chew what we have bitten off without Him. (That last part is from me. ) When I hear His call and cry for His help, I am all about being open to it; but once I get underway, I take far too much ownership of His work. Then Neil Anderson in DAILY IN CHRIST reminds me of Paul's admonition in Romans 7 that unless God reigns in our lives, moment by moment, sin will. But finally, in my dear mother's copy of MEDITATION MOMENTS by Mildred Stamm I am helped to once again get my mind around the incredible mercy and grace that is always, always available when I can swallow my pride and confess that I have gotten off track.....and depressed. I feel better already!