Wake up

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It has always amazed me how I can be awakened out of a dead sleep by a realization that comes like a bolt out of the blue. It's usually something like, "If I don't put the mortgage payment in the morning mail we'll pay a late fee." I get out of bed and put the addressed envelope on the kitchen table where I'll see it in the morning. Crawling back into bed, I can't think of any reason why I should have awakened, or why the mortgage payment would have to come to mind. Especially if I was sound asleep.

How does this happen? Amazing.

This morning I woke up thinking about a meeting I was in yesterday. It was a meeting in which I was put on the spot. When I woke up, I was having clear, complete thoughts about what was said, even though it was 3:30 a.m. Just an instant before I had been blissfully snoring and unarousable.

As I lay in bed this morning, even though I kept mulling the whole experience over obsessively, I was reminded that this sudden waking is something that will occur to me again on a much more grand scale one day. I will go to "sleep" thinking one thing and awaken thinking something else--hearing Someone so much greater.

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:51-57