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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Are you dejected?


Every fact that the disciples stated was right; but the inferences they drew from those facts were wrong. Anything that savours of dejection spiritually is always wrong. If depression and oppression visit me, I am to blame; God is not, nor is anyone else. Dejection springs from one of two sources — I have either satisfied a lust or I have not. Lust means — I must have it at once. Spiritual lust makes me demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Who gives the answer. What have I been trusting God would do? And to-day — the immediate present — is the third day, and He has not done it; therefore I imagine I am justified in being dejected and in blaming God. Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer. It is impossible to be well physically and to be dejected. Dejection is a sign of sickness, and the same thing is true spiritually. Dejection spiritually is wrong, and we are always to blame for it. – Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, 2/6
Dejection and depression are not the same. Do not confuse them. 
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I am returning to a passion that grew in my 25 years ago when I was the Chaplain for the Homeless. At the beginning of 2018 I was appointed to be the Chaplain for the Homeless. The main focus of my energies will by around the Lodestar Day Resource Center found on the Human Services Campus (HSC), downtown Phoenix. The HSC is one the first of its kind in the United States in attempting to create a one-stop mall for persons seeking to escape homelessness. I will attend to their spiritual needs to the best of my ability. This blog will reflect my thinking as I am walking among the homeless. Please read, ponder and if you are moved to comment, please comment. If you find something here worth quoting, please credit the source: it is the honorable thing to do. Ron Friesen
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