Romans 13:11-14

"And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof."
Romans 13:11-14


Good stuff in here... talking about sleep not just physically but in other ways as well I think.  So many times I am fully physically awake, but my mind is dreaming... :)  We have to wake up and pay attention, because sometimes the time runs out before we have time to finish the answer sheet, and we have to make sure that the answers that we are putting down now are right... we might not have time to review them later.  I like all the light/dark imagery... and the armour of light is cool... no darkness can get through that. It protects us from the darkness in our lives.  Then he talks about it differently... it's living honestly, not in things that make us feel bad or things that we feel we have to hide or edit out of our conversations with children... but with no darkness or deception. :)  Not in out of control "partying," or drunkenness, or obsessive or thrill-seeking sexual behavior, or in arguments or resentment with the people around us... Just in being plain old who we are.  (Which really isn't plain OR old except in our own perceptions sometimes)  Kind of like the book "And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street."  Have you guys read that?
Anyway, then in the last verse here... put on Jesus Christ.  he is the Armour of Light that we were talking about earlier.  If you have him around, none of that darkness can get in.  And if we do that, and accept Christ unconditionally... without making exceptions like "well, I'll believe in Him except when it interferes with what I want..." then we will have that impermeable armour, that will never leave us.  We'll still have to take the test, of course... but the darkness won't be able to get in.  (Reminds me of another story... Zenna Henderson's "Stevie and the Dark" I think it is called.) ... Christ can protect us from ANYTHING, as long as we have him around.