Mea e 'ai e tatau ma le aso
“Arise and eat” (1 Kings 19:5).
The angel in this verse did not give Elijah a vision, or explain the Scriptures to him, or do anything remarkable. He simply told Elijah to do a very ordinary, normal thing, that is, to get up and eat. If we were never depressed, we would not be alive. Only material things don’t suffer depression.
If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. There are things in life that are designed to depress us; for example, things that are associated with death. I experienced that with the passing of two of my very close friends these past two weeks.
Whenever you examine yourself, always take into account your capacity for and the possibility of depression. When the Spirit of God comes to us, He does not give us glorious visions, but He tells us to do the most ordinary things imaginable. 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. Even things we would never imagined God would be in, but as we do them we find Him there. The inspiration that comes to us in this way is an initiative against depression.
But we must take the first step and do it in the inspiration of God. If, we do something simply to try to overcome our depression, we will only deepen it. But when the Spirit of God leads us to do something, the moment we do it, it reminds us of the unconditional love of God for us, and the depression is gone. As soon as we "arise and obey", we enter a higher plane of life, and you praise God even for the depression.
Ia manuia,
failauga p. anoa'i
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