Being Spiritually Awake

So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”

But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.

So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.

Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful,

Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.

Wake up and strengthen what remains, which is about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.