Sleepwalking

"Awake! Awake! Put on strength, of arm of the Lord..."

"Awake! Awake! Stand up, oh Jerusalem..."

"Awake! Awake! Put on thy strength, oh Zion..." Isaiah 51:9, 17; 52:1

How true it is that most of our prayers act as though God were asleep. How fitting it is, then, when His answers reveal that it is we who have been asleep. The revelations of God are very much like awakenings, like coming out of a dream and into reality. We only thought we knew what was and is; we find instead that we have been fools. We thought that God was ignoring us; we find instead that we were the ignorant.

"I am the Lord thy God." (51:15) We ask that God remembers us; He replies that we should remember Him. All fears and doubts come from the dreamlike state of not accounting for God in your circumstances. Until God is real, we are sleepwalkers, and we know not where we are, or what we run into. Once God is real, however, immediately we awake, and the dawn lights all of our surroundings: "Why, God was there the whole time!" God's dealings with us (in regards to prayer or anything else) is constantly bringing us to this revelation: the infinite-personal, Scripture revealed God is there, and he4 wants to set you free from delusions and bind you to Himself.

"Destroy all illusions

And self-made forgeries.

Melt them all like shadows

Before the Sun..."

-Jon Vowell