SPIRITUAL SLEEP

SPIRITUAL SLEEP

Your case is not an uncommon one. Song of Songs 5: 2 “I sleep, but my heart waketh”, I think describes your state. It is one of spiritual sleep, and this arises from indolence in walk; but though you might be able to trace the originating cause, the great matter with you is the remedy. I can only prescribe what the end of Song of Songs 5 sets forth: occupation with the Lord, personally, exclusively, and engrossingly; so that your own state may not be the object at all before your mind. The great thing for you is the light of His countenance; like a traveller on a dark night, the one single thing to be desired is the light. This must be the one thing sought, and the less reference in thought, or word, to others, about your own state, the better.

Medical men try to divert their patients from occupation with the suffering organs. How much more in order to obtain true moral cure must we be diverted from the darkness, or the cause of it, to the light, which only can relieve us. The more you speak of, or think of, the darkness, the more you aggravate it. “Seek the Lord, and his strength: seek his face evermore” (Psalm 105: 4).