Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers goes right exactly along with what we looked at yesterday on this blog!
The Initiative Against Despair
Rise, let us be going. — 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 – “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 a 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 for ever,
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 and to pray on the ground
of His Redemption.
Never let the sense of failure corrupt
your new action.
AMEN! THAT is exactly what the enemy wants us to do! Get discouraged, quit, give up and judge ourselves as unworthy to receive all that God has planned for us! LIES!!! Don't receive the LIES from the father of them! He is nothing but a liar and the TRUTH is NOT in him! So, reject and replace! Reject the lies and replace them with the powerful TRUTHS of God's Word! YOU will never be the same, and neither with all of those whom HE brings across YOUR path! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Young and Free with "Hindsight":