A SAD BUT HOPEFUL CONDITION

Every member of the church of Christ, every believer, has often made this lamentation: "I sleep, but my heart waketh" (Song of Sol. 5:2). How sluggish we often become in the worship and service of Christ. But there is hope, and comfort in that hope. Though I sleep, "My heart waketh." There is in my heart a living principle of grace that is awake and full of life, even in the midst of my dreadful slumber. "My heart waketh," because "It is the voice of my Beloved that knocketh, saying, open to me." There is hope because when he knocks, he gains entrance. He knows how to open the hearts of his saints and awaken us from our loathsome slumber.