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Morning and Evening

March 5, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Let us not sleep, as do others." — 1 Thessalonians 5:6 · KJV

There are many ways of promoting Christian wakefulness. Among the rest, let me strongly urge Christians to talk together about the ways of the Lord. Christian and Hopeful, as they journeyed toward the Celestial City, said to themselves, "To keep from drowsiness in this place, let us fall into good discourse." Christian asked, "Brother, where shall we begin?" And Hopeful answered, "Where God began with us." Then Christian sang a song, the sense of which was this: when saints grow sleepy, let them come and hear how these two pilgrims talk together, and learn from them to keep their drowsy, slumbering eyes open; for the fellowship of the saints, if it is well managed, keeps them awake in spite of hell. Christians who isolate themselves and walk alone are very apt to grow drowsy. Keep Christian company, and you will be kept wakeful by it, refreshed and encouraged to make quicker progress on the road to heaven. But as you take this sweet counsel with others in the ways of God, take care that the theme of your talk is the Lord Jesus. Let the eye of faith be constantly looking to Him; let your heart be full of Him; let your lips speak of His worth. Friend, live near the cross, and you will not sleep. Labor to impress on yourself a deep sense of the value of the place to which you are going. If you remember that you are going to heaven, you will not sleep on the road. If you think that hell is behind you and the devil pursuing you, you will not loiter. Would the man-slayer sleep with the avenger of blood behind him and the city of refuge before him? Christian, will you sleep while the pearly gates are open, the songs of angels waiting for you to join them, and a crown of gold ready for your brow? Ah no; in holy fellowship keep on watching and praying, that you enter not into temptation.