READ:
JEREMIAH 51:5-57
Sleep is a
phenomenon that has not been understood by people. Regardless of the
ever-increasing body of knowledge on human psychology, learned people do not do
not fully understand the mystery of sleep. Today, let us examine what I call
perpetual sleep. God use sleep as a weapon of dealing with the rebellious. What
is perpetual sleep? It is spiritual sleep, God’s anaesthesia for dealing with those who shun the call to
spiritual aliveness. Whenever God sends his kind of sleep to anybody, it means
that the person is already destroyed. Another name of perpetual sleep is the
sleep of death. On the day of rapture, two people will be sleeping on the same
bed, the trumpet shall sound and one will go while the other will not. One will
hear the sound because he or she is sleeping physically but awake spiritually.
The other will be sleeping both physically and spiritually and, thus, will not
hear the trumpet sound. Such a fellow will remain here. In Psalm 13:3 is a
prayer I utter fervently every night: “Consider and hear me, O LORD my God;
enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death.” Make this your
nightly prayer so that you will not sleep the kind of sleep that will not let you
hear the sound o the trumpet. Several things can lead you to the sleep of
death: too much comfort can sentence you to perpetual sleep. When you keep you
keep on sinning and you are not punished in time, it can send you to the sleep
of death. When you constantly disobey God you may be leading yourself to the
sleep of death. If God has been telling you to give your life to Jesus Christ
and you refuse, you can sleep the sleep of death. If you are a backslider and
God has been calling you to return and you have been refusing, you can sleep
the sleep of death. Spiritual slumber is dangerous. The Bible says, “As
newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if
indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. Coming to Him as to a living
stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as
living stone, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer
up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” (1
Peter 2:2-5). The Lord is coming. Awake, O sleeper!
MEMORIZE:
PSALM 13:3 –Consider and hear me, O LORD my God; enlighten my eyes, lest I
sleep the sleep of death.
