"O that ye would awake; awake from a deep sleep, yea, even from the sleep of hell, and shake off the awful chains by which ye are bound, which are the chains which bind the children of men, that they are carried away captive down to the eternal gulf of misery and woe."
2 Nephi 1:13
This is kind of an interesting idea where sin = sleep, and so the chains referred to are kind of symbolic of that heaviness and blankness of mind when you are really tired or asleep, and waking up to God is that clarity when we're fully wide awake and can think again. :)
I think the analogy works pretty well. The Holy Ghost helps us remember and pay attention to things that are important, but when we walk away from God then we kind of get a brain cloud, and things can seem confusing, or just dark. I think the scariest part is that at first you can kind of feel it happening, but after a while you can't anymore and it starts to seem normal. That's super scary because I think that is the spiritual desensitization or hardening of our hearts that the scriptures warn us about.
Today, let's seek clarity of mind and make choices that help us think and learn and moving towards God rather than running away and forgetting. Life definitely isn't always easy, but let's hold on to the goodness that we have, and trust God for our deliverance rather than giving up and drifting off into the spiritual "sleep of hell."
2 Nephi 1:13
This is kind of an interesting idea where sin = sleep, and so the chains referred to are kind of symbolic of that heaviness and blankness of mind when you are really tired or asleep, and waking up to God is that clarity when we're fully wide awake and can think again. :)
I think the analogy works pretty well. The Holy Ghost helps us remember and pay attention to things that are important, but when we walk away from God then we kind of get a brain cloud, and things can seem confusing, or just dark. I think the scariest part is that at first you can kind of feel it happening, but after a while you can't anymore and it starts to seem normal. That's super scary because I think that is the spiritual desensitization or hardening of our hearts that the scriptures warn us about.
Today, let's seek clarity of mind and make choices that help us think and learn and moving towards God rather than running away and forgetting. Life definitely isn't always easy, but let's hold on to the goodness that we have, and trust God for our deliverance rather than giving up and drifting off into the spiritual "sleep of hell."
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