April 6

I wonder how many of us can say with any seriousness the words of the Psalmist in Psalm 119:148. There he says, “…I am awake before the cry of the watchman that I may meditate on Your Word.” How many of us are so eager to delve into our Bibles that we can’t wait to wake up in the morning!

But the Word is health to our bones and life to our spirits. In it are the very issues of life for time and eternity. Should we not eagerly approach it, reverently open it, focusing on its intent and allow our hearts to be penetrated by every nuance of its meaning.

Conversely, should we allow ourselves to fall into somnolence? Are we not aware that to languish through the day in slumber is to waste the precious commodity of time that is allotted to us? And even more devastating to our lives than excessive physical sleep is the spiritual somnolence that can fall upon the unwary.

If we allow ourselves to be lulled into the kind of indifference to the things of the Lord that are our right to understand, to appropriate and to implement into lives of surrender to Him that result in spiritual blessing, then we have let spiritual somnolence rob us of the rich blessing He would lavish upon us if we were spiritually awake and alert.