For this reason it says,
“Awake, sleeper,
And arise from the dead,
And Christ will shine on you.”
If we awake, Christian, consider how many evils in this world would be undone. It is sobering to realize that we, the church, have been rightly accused of sleeping at the wheel by not shouldering our responsibilities to be God’s witness in our society
And, yet, before going up against the evils of our nation, we must first come to grips with our own lethargy …indifference… lack of conviction…, namely our deadness in our own relationship with God Almighty,
So, therefore, while the light of Christ will expose any deadness within us, we, then, will have a part to play in deciding to allow God to free us from such shackles.
In closing, then, will you, my brother and sister, allow the Spirit of God to awaken you from the dead?