While 'crying myself to sleep' is the case for some. My version is overthinking myself to sleep. Just missing my bedtime as an adult leads to lingering obsessive thoughts that would sabotage my desire to simply sleep. I'll do everything to be sleepy and it often ends with "God, would just let me sleep, please?"
Then, comes the morning. "Good, I got to sleep", I'll think to myself. No matter how much has gone through my head in the night (or past midnight), I would feel like I'm given a new chance because of the morning I was allowed to live again. Sleep is almost designed to be a RESET.
The life of Moses needed one. The Israelites are a handful and this gotten the best of his leadership. Though Moses was not allowed to step on the Promise Land, his death is a reset (Deutronomy 8). He can be with God. He did not have to struggle and deal with the Israelites anymore.
Sleep and death are likened in the sense that both achieves a reset. While death can be devastating for loved ones, it is nevertheless a blessing of rest. The physical death a believer has to go through is essential in experiencing a resurrection in order to spend life that lasts forever.
While death can be devastating for loved ones, it is nevertheless a blessing of rest.
On the other hand, Revelation 9 tells us that a time will come that those who did not place their faith in Christ will have a different dilemma. They will go through a terrible suffering that they would want death to be near but it wouldn't come.
It continued in the same chapter that these same people refused to repent. They have their pride in their sinful ways. They sound just like the people of Edom mentioned in the book of Obadiah. An absence of humility, the apathy towards repentance, leads to the kind of death that isn't restful —eternal death —apart from God, in hell.
An absence of humility, the apathy towards repentance, leads to the kind of death that isn't restful —eternal death —apart from God, in hell.
Dying isn't always a dreadful thing. If we don't mind admitting that we were wrong and we are willing to submit to God again, there is nothing to be feared about death. Physical death is temporary. Spiritual death on the other hand, is a paradox of endless death.
Our hearts today will make the difference in our eternity.
Repent now. Give your life to Jesus.
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