Sometimes your calling, comes in dream
Sometimes in comes in the spirit’s breeze,
You reach for the deepest part of me,
And call out for the things of eternity.

But i’m a man, of dust and stains,
You move in me, so i can say,

Chorus:
Here i am, lord send me,
All of my life, i make an offering,
Here i am, lord send me,
Somehow my story, is part of your plan,
Here i am

When setbacks and failures, and upset plans,
Test my faith and leave me with empty hands,
Are you not the closest when it’s hardest to stand?
I know that you will finish what you began.

These broken parts you redeem,
Become the song, that i can sing
(chorus)

Overwhelmed by the thought of my weakness,
And the fear that i’ll fail you in the end,
In this mess, i’m just one of the pieces,
I can’t put this together but you can.

The angel in this passage 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 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. Whenever you examine yourself, always take into account your capacity for 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-things we would never have imagined God was 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, however, we do something simply to overcome our depression, we will only deepen it. But when the Spirit of God leads us instinctively to do something, the moment we do it the depression is gone. As soon as we arise and obey, we enter a higher plane of life.