Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you
Ephesians 5:14 This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” Are you defiled? Are you becoming more and more defiled each day? A newborn baby has not yet expressed defilement. His purity is attractive. He is not stained with words of anger, unforgiveness, jealousy, doubt, revenge, lust, dishonesty, or rebellion. His heart has not yet been blackened and hardened by the cold-heartedness of sin. He was born into a world and life of sin, but it has not taken hold of him yet. His spirit is still warm. Sin is there, but it has not yet defiled him. When a person is exposed to the cold blasts of winter air and freezing temperatures, his body begins the process of dying from the cold. It is the same with sin and the human heart. The longer the body remains out in the dangerous cold, the more heat of Life is lost. As the heat of Truth and Life dims, the cold takes over. The body is never neutral. It either has the warmth of Life or it has the cold of death. No matter what the person does, exposure to the cold temperature of death will begin to harden the body. It is the same with sin. The longer a human heart is exposed to sin and allows it to remain, the colder and more hardened the heart becomes. This is why you rarely see a young child with a hard, cold heart. You will see sin progress within that heart each day until the hardness is complete and numbness sets in. When the body is being destroyed by cold, it passes the point of pain and becomes numb as the nerves and tissue are damaged. An unfeeling heart is in danger just as an unfeeling body. The longer the body remains exposed to the cold, the more the numbness spreads. The tissue of the body then becomes hardened as it dies. The blood of life does not flow through any longer. The person does not realize what is happening. He does not know that he is dying. When the heart remains exposed to darkness and sin, it also passes the point of pain to become numb and then hardened. The warmth of Truth and Life no longer flow through the heart. The understanding of the mind becomes limited. Cold-heartedness toward Me, parents, co-workers, relatives, and life in general spreads like frostbite within the soul. The human does not realize he is in danger of spiritual death because he is numb and without understanding. Occasionally he may be surprised at what he can do or experience without feeling pain or guilt. The last stage of a body that is dying of frostbite is sleepiness. The body not only feels no pain, but it desires to sleep. The person believes he is not in danger, but only in need of sleep. He may lie down in the snow and intend to sleep for just a while, thinking all is well. He does not perceive impending doom. He does not pay attention to the warning signs either from his own body or from others. He is not far from physical death. This last stage of physical frostbite is a warning to those who have remained away from My warm Love for a long time. The soul which has become cold-hearted toward Me and others is in danger of allowing the sleep of death to take over. When one is asleep, they do not see the Truth of their state of being. They do not pay attention to warning signs and ignore others who attempt to help them. They prefer numbness and sleep to the Truth. This is the process of defilement from darkness and sin. How defiled are you? Ask yourself these questions: How soft and loving is my heart toward each person Jesus has placed near me? How content am I with my present circumstances? Am I at peace or am I restless? What words are coming out of my mouth? Do I speak negatively about someone? Do I speak words of self-pity? Do I speak truth or tell lies? Do I speak words to impress others? Do I defend my self at all costs? Do I place my needs above others? Do I feel compassion toward others? Do I understand how others feel and desire to comfort them? Do I prefer to fellowship with the lowly and the needy? Do I lose patience with those who are undesirable? Do I speak of the past in a negative way? Do I speak of the present in a negative way and long for the “good old days?” Have I lost my care for the pain of others and my desire to know my Maker? Awake you who sleep and slumber. Arise from your bed of death. Ask Me to thaw your heart. Ask Me to blow warm Love back through your spirit. Ask Me to show you the Truth. Seek Me with all your heart. Set your whole mind and being on coming close to the fire of My Love. Put away all the things of earth that blow freezing coldness onto your heart. Run from the dark frost. Seek Me and My warm healing Love quickly. Do not let anything or anyone keep you from coming to My fire of deliverance and peace. Wake up and run. I Love you. I Am here. I know how to warm your heart and breathe Life within you again. Come to Me and I will purify your soul and make you clean as a newborn babe. I know how to restore your innocence. I can make all things new. Matthew 15:16-20 Jesus said, “Are you still lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is eliminated? But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those
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