{"id":471484,"date":"2025-02-18T01:21:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T19:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=471484"},"modified":"2025-02-18T01:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T19:51:34","slug":"the-initiative-against-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/the-initiative-against-despair\/","title":{"rendered":"The Initiative against Despair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d0c9c20ec85ce6ff9f9970a7d349c5fc wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rise! Let us go! \u2014 Matthew 26:46<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus\u2019s disciples fell asleep when they were supposed to be keeping watch. When they awoke and realized that Jesus was about to be taken, they were filled with despair.<br>We might imagine that this kind of despair is unusual; in fact, it\u2019s a very common human experience. Whenever we realize that we\u2019ve done something we can\u2019t undo, whenever we let a magnificent opportunity pass us by, despair is the natural response. Sometimes, our feeling of despair is so deep we can\u2019t lift ourselves out of it. At these moments, we need Jesus Christ to come to us and say, \u201cRise! Let us go!\u201d<br>When our Lord comes to us in this way, he tells us to accept the reality of our situation. \u201cThat opportunity is lost forever,\u201d he says. \u201cYou can\u2019t change what has happened. But rise now, and go on.\u201d In Gethsemane, the disciples had done something they felt was unforgivable. Jesus came with his spiritual initiative against despair, telling them to move on to the next thing. What is the next thing? If we are inspired by God, the next thing is always to trust him absolutely and to pray on the ground of his redemption.<br>Never let a sense of failure alter your new plans and actions. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep with Christ. Step out into the irresistible future with him.<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise! Let us go! \u2014 Matthew 26:46 In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus\u2019s disciples fell asleep when they were supposed to be keeping watch. When they awoke and realized that Jesus was about to be taken, they were filled with despair.We might imagine that this kind of despair is unusual; in fact, it\u2019s a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}