wake up from your sleep.

Just read Ephesians 5, which is aptly titled “wake up from your sleep” in my Bible. I’ve noticed that falling into temptation is just like sleep—conscious at first, but subconscious as it slowly takes you over. You may lie down in bed to “rest”, knowing fully well that sleep may overtake you—or, giving it “crawl space” to do so. All it needs is a little push to get it swinging freely, a little spark to get a forest fire. As soon as it overtakes you, full understanding of what’s going on, what things are being let fly, is no longer present and compromise after compromise cuts you in half, then into quarters, then eighths. I keep applying Jesus Christ Hand Lotion—I did it today.