“Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids./ Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.”
A roe learns to run as soon as it is born. With so many predators about a calf although a new born knows the times and shall not do as man who is a sluggard to allow himself to be bamboozled by his adversary. Only say,’pursuit of happiness’ and see how he takes to it. Pandemic gave us some shining examples,’So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man’. A sluggard shall sleep on so many waves of variants never mind where it come from. He has ceased to fight for truth.
There are two kinds of sleep: Foolishness is to sleep when utmost caution is vital. For your enemy goes about whom to make meal of.”Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:(1 Pe.5:8)” Samson let himself lulled to carelessness under wine.”And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him./ And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him./ But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house(Ju.16:19-21)”. Here we have the effect of wine of violence. Delilah is the epitome of the stranger we have been considering lately. She does not sleep as normal people do. Because she is on her job and her master is your adversary she was true to what we have already come across. “For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall./ For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence(4:16-17)”.
Samson lost his eye of faith , was kept captive to slave his life away. What a fall. Opioid crisis was man made when a nation sold itself to advance the interests of Satan, the adversary to every sound doctrine. When a fool advocates,’trickle down economy’ the whole nation swallows line sink and hook and allow Big Pharma to sell, sell sell! How whole economy goes overdrive? When such eye candies and nostrums are peddled by pharmacists across the country is it strange if the big Lie is more believed than resist them? This is one sleep we see about us. “Your eyes will see strange sights, and your mind will imagine confusing things./You will be like one sleeping on the high seas, lying on top of the rigging./”They hit me,” you will say, “but I’m not hurt! They beat me, but I don’t feel it! When will I wake up so I can find another drink?”(23:33-35-NIV)
Second sleep is “The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep(Ec.5:12).
6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
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