1 Thessalonians 5:6
6 Therefore [ara] [oun] let us [katheudo] not [me] sleep, [katheudo] as [hos] [kai] do others; [loipoy] but [alla] let us watch [gregoreuo] and [kai] be sober. [nepho] KJV-Interlinear
6 so then let us not sleep as
others do, but let us be alert and sober. NASB
Your life constantly
revolves around your thinking.What you
think dictates how you orient to life, and how you perceive life. Your thinking dictates your attitudes, your
beliefs, your assumptions and your conclusions regarding life.
Bible doctrine is the
only source of information that can keep your thinking on track with
reality.
Bible doctrine learned
and inculcated while in fellowship is the only means of your correct
orientation to life.
No, Bible doctrine will
not make you a star athlete, or a brilliant rocket scientist. Those are temporal gifts that pertain to this
physical world.
But Bible doctrine does
give you a sober mind, or a mind that is not inebriated.
Without doctrine, you
are in effect living life under the influence of disorientation. Your
disorientation has to do with your relationship with God, with truth, with
reality, and therefore with all of life.
Your thoughts are confused, your attitude is
not aligned correctly with reality.
The spiritually
dysfunctional person lives in darkness, in disorientation, and therefore his
conclusions regarding life are inaccurate.
They will never be accurate.
And yes, people will
live their normal daily lives in this world.
They will attend school and learn academics, they will go to work and
earn a living, they will buy and sell and trade and some will be successful,
even brilliant within the scope of their lives.
But those things all pertain
to this carnal or temporal world, which is a very small portion of ones entire existence. Your spiritual side of life is far more vast than anything of this carnal world.
To live within the
carnal realm only, is to ignore the lions share of
your life, or of your potential life.
The spiritually dysfunctional
person, lives their life as though they were asleep.
Now, if you were to
examine your own self, then describe just how much productivity in your life is
achieved while you are asleep.Can you
eat while asleep?Can you drive your car
while asleep?Can you work at your job
while asleep? Can you clean your home while asleep? Can you really accomplish anything while
asleep?
And if you are honest
then you have to say that your sleep, while it allows you to rest and recover
your energy, does not really accomplish much more then
that.If you were to sleep all of your
life, you would not live very long.You would
die of starvation.
And spiritually
dysfunctional people live their lives as though asleep. They accomplish nothing.
So, life without God,
without Christ, without doctrine, is a very empty unproductive life.
However, life with all
of the components of the spiritual life, makes you
alert by default, with respect to your understanding of reality, of Gods plan,
of how this world really functions.You
do not have to stay awake twenty-four hours a day in order to be awake when
Christ returns.That is not what alert,
means.
Alert, in the spiritual
life means, to know, to understand, to be advanced in your spiritual life such
that when Christ actually does return, or when your time is up in this world
and God calls you home, or when any other event occurs in this world, you are not taken by surprise, because you
know what is going on.
You have learned it, you
comprehend it, and you understand it.
And by pursuing your
spiritual life day to day, all of your life, then you maintain your
understanding, your knowledge, your wisdom, and therefore your alertness.
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