Wake up, stay awake, it’s no time to slumber and sleep

Meditate about these things.

Strange things happen at night. When asleep you hardly know what is happening around you. If you suddenly wake up in the dark, you may be afraid, stumble or stagger. Remember about the thief in the night. How prepared are you for the thief that comes to you at night? Sleep involves the subconscious. We can be sleeping spiritually, but you think you are alright because you are conscious of your actions; but spiritually you may not be alright. The term, spiritual sleep, means insensitivity to the working and leading of the Spirit of God in one’s life. Ephesians 5:14 says, “Wherefore he saith, awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light.” “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” (v. 11). Darkness and Light are totally different. In the same way, Sleeping and being Awake are totally different from each other.

There is danger in the whole world today. This is not the danger of what you see but that of what you do not see. What is going on in the world is not just human, it is satanic. The man of sin, like the snake he is; is now creeping and curling, unnoticed by the world. The issue is that many people call on our Lord Jesus Christ but do not take heed to his word. Read John 14:23-24, “If any man loves me he will keep my word.”

The words of the Lord that should keep every true believer thinking are found in the following passages of the scripture. Luke 21:36 which reads, “Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” Another scripture is in Matt.25:13 which reads, “Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.” The question now is, are you sleeping instead of watching and praying always, like we have heard and have been taught by the word of God?

Spiritually, people sleep for many reasons. We are talking about spiritual sleep. The Lord has tarried like in Matt.25:5, “While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.” You know many people are physically walking around but are spiritually sleeping, are you one of those?

Let me point you to the things that make people slumber and sleep spiritually. Many of them are found in Galatians 5:19-21 which reads, “Now the works flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulation, wrath, strife, sedition, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like.

Wake up, stay awake, this is not the time to sleep. Watch and pray always, for no man knoweth what time the Lord cometh. It may be in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening or at midnight. At midnight a cry was made, go ye out to meet the bridegroom. This is no time to sleep, wake up and stay awake. For when the bridegroom arrived those that were ready went in with him and the door was shut.

Wake up, stay awake, it’s no time to slumber and sleep – Week 30