The Awakened Sleepers

Monday, April 28, 2025

There's a famous movie called "Awakenings" based on a true story of a group of people who succumbed to a "sleeping disease" in the 1920s. And they fell asleep. They fell asleep for days, weeks, months, years, decades. And decades later, they woke up, to find they had slept most of their lives away. For most of them, their awakening was miraculous. But the sad part was, they all started reverting, and soon had fallen back into their sleep. There's a spiritual side to this. Once we were all spiritually asleep to God. But when we were born again, we woke up. And it was a whole new world. But, very often, as the years go by, believers lose their zeal, their gratitude, their wonder, and their joy. They start falling back into other things; they start falling spiritually asleep. When you're falling asleep, most of the time you don't even realize it. Don't let that be you. Awaken your spiritual zeal, and your first love again. As it is written, "Wake up, sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Messiah will shine on you."

From Message #1131 - Awakening