Awake! Are You Asleep Spiritually? Awake (WAKE UP!!!) By His Word and By His Spirit Christ is Calling You To Awake by Faith and Repentance!
- Dr. Roger D Duke
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A Devotional Thought for Wednesday March 18, 2026
From the pen of John Bunyan, early English Baptist Pastor
Author of the oft read Pilgrim's Progress
Awake O Sleeper!
“Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead and Christ will shine on you”
Ephesians 5: 14b.
Christians should so manage their time and the work that God hath appointed them to do for His name in this world, that they may not have part thereof to do when they should be departing this world. Because, if they do not, dying will be a hard work with them especially if God awakens them about their neglect of their duty (1 Corinthians 11:30-32). The way of God with his people is to visit their sins in this life; and the worst time for thee to be visited for them is when thy life is smitten down. [When] . . . the dust of death, even when all natural infirmities break in like a flood upon you, sickness, fainting, pains, wearisomeness, and the like. Now I say, to be charged also with the neglect of duty when [there is] no capacity to do it. Perhaps [you will be] so feeble as scarce able to abide to hear thy dearest friend in this life speak to thee; will not this make dying hard? Yes, when you shalt seem both in thine own eyes as also in the eyes of others to fall short of the kingdom of heaven for this and the other transgression, will not this make dying hard? (Hebrews 4: 1-2). David found it hard, when he cried, “O spare me” a little, “that I may recover strength before I go hence and be no more” (Psalm 39: 13). So again, “The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow: then called I upon the name of the Lord.” [Yes], this will make you cry though thou be as good as David! Wherefore learn by his sorrow, as he himself also learned, at last; to serve his own generation by the will of God before he fell asleep.
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