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.