"For behold, all ye that doeth iniquity, stay yourselves and wonder, for ye shall cry out, and cry; yea, ye shall be drunken but not with wine, ye shall stagger but not with strong drink.
For behold, the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep. For behold, ye have closed your eyes, and ye have rejected the prophets; and your rulers, and the seers hath he covered because of your iniquity."
2 Nephi 27:4-5
This is interesting, talking about staggering and being drunk with sleep... but sleep that we have chosen because we've rejected the gospel... so kind of like sleepwalking or hallucinating and not being able to see the truth. It reminds me of Alma 12 where it says "... he that will not harden his heart, to him is given the greater portion of the word . . . until he know them in full. / And they that will harden their hearts, to them is given the lesser portion of the word until they know nothing...." (Alma 12:10-11). We're either growing in the gospel... walking around clear-sighted and learning ... or we're half-asleep all the time, forgetting things that we used to know because we've closed our eyes and shut God out of our hearts. People say that they are fence-sitters sometimes, but I think these scriptures make it very clear that there are no fence sitters for long, because we're either gaining or losing. It is impossible to just stay in the middle.
Today, let's let go of iniquity, and wake up to God. Let's learn and work towards knowing more about God and his gospel instead of letting what we already have slip through our fingers as we spiritually doze.
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