"Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
My brother-in-law loves to argue. He is a great arguer at anytime about anything. One time he was arguing with my wife and I about how we can really know that this life is truly real, and that when we go to sleep we're really actually sleeping. Or maybe I should say, how can we know that when we go to sleep we're not actually waking up, and when we wake up in the morning, that we're not actually falling asleep? Confused? So was I. I told you he was a great arguer. I left that conversation bewildered, hoping the topic wouldn't arise again later in the day. To my relief, it didn't.
Sporadically, that conversation has come back to my mind and I've mulled over it. I think there was more truth in that conversation than I realized at first. I've come to understand that there is an inner-man or inner-woman inside all of us. This spirit inside of us is seated with Christ in the heavenly places, it dwells in us and in heavenly places all at the same time, therefore, we have an open access to God and His blessings at all times! The problem is that most of us have not awoken yet. Not truly awoken. This includes me! The worldly systems do a great job in teaching our spirit inside of us to hibernate; to lay dormant. So although we live our lives, it is in a perpetual state of sleep; we're asleep to what God has really planned and really wants for our lives including all of the miracles and crazy things we dream about (like flying). I just recently had a dream that I was flying and I loved it; but who's to say that the God who created all things doesn't want me to actually be able to fly in 'real life' (whatever that is)? Elijah ran faster than a chariot because he was truly awake to God's power in him. We can all be channels of that power because we are all equally loved by God, and He wants to bless us abundantly.
So think about this, the next time you're about to go to sleep: Are you really falling asleep? Or is the TRUE you, the spirit inside of you, actually waking up? Maybe the inner-man is stretching and waking up for another adventure in a truer reality than what we know. Maybe God is finally able to communicate with you because the world is finally tuned out and you can finally listen.
Are you living? Or are you sleeping?
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