“Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.” John 11:11.
She was a beauty with skin as white as snow with a propensity to serve others…seven to be exact. Her name was Snow White and her weakness was not recognizing the evil that lurked around her. She opened the door to vulnerability and her lips touched the apple of death. Through her invitation of temptation and compromise she took the bite that the enemy offered, and immediately fell into death. She was encased in a beautiful box which entombed the body that lay asleep. But as we all know she was awakened with the tender kiss of her prince.
We all have a story that we could write regarding the apple we bit which placed us in spiritual slumber. Was it the compromise of business to get ahead that lulled us to sleep? Was it the addiction that we tried to cover up that wore us out requiring an extended nap? What fears of the future have encased our bodies as we lay there unmoved and paralyzed in our thinking?
We have a Prince who climbed the tower and removed our encasement, giving us His tender kiss of life. The tower He climbed was a cross and the tender kiss He gave us was the resurrection. For through His loving sacrifice, His lips touched ours and breathed life into each of us. By making our Prince central in our lives, He calls us to awake and arise. He invites us to grab His royal hand and walk with Him through the streets of the kingdom. He displays all of us as His beautiful treasures and offers a real life through Him with all of the kingdom privileges on earth as it will be in Heaven.
We become His main character in a story that is greater than fiction, a story that is based on truth. Our lives with Christ do not live in a book of fairy tales but live in a real love affair between a Savior and His beloved.
'Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.' Eph. 5:14
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