I Thess 5:1-11
2 For you yourselves know full well that
the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.
3 While they are saying, “Peace and
safety!” then destruction will come upon
them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not
escape.
4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day
would overtake you like a thief;
5 for you are all sons of light and sons
of day. We are not of night nor of darkness;
6 so then let us not sleep as others do,
but let us be alert and sober.
7 For those who sleep do their sleeping
at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night.
8 But since
we are of the day, let us be sober,
having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of
salvation.
9 For God
has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord
Jesus Christ,
10 who died for us, so that whether we are
awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.
11 Therefore
encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.
You don’t know when it’s coming. You’ll think everything is
the same old, same old. It is just like you are sleepwalking – you don’t realize
that what you are experiencing is real. We are to be alert – on our toes. Don’t
go by what you see, but by what the Holy Spirit is saying to the Church. Verse
8 sounds like Paul in Ephesians. Our destiny is not wrath, but salvation
through the Lord Jesus Christ. That in itself is encouraging.
13. If we
could hear God speak, He would probably say: “It’s like a child staying awake on Christmas. After a
while he/she gets sleepy or bored and is no longer alert. There is too much to
lose to sleep now. Even though it seems like the Day will never come, keep
watching and praying like Jesus told the disciples in the Garden.”
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