Pardon the pun… this is a true “WAKE-UP CALL” from our own Helen Kraemer. Hope we’ll take it to heart.
Ken
The Sandman Cometh
Jan. 9, ’09
Has the Lord ever run a phrase through your spirit over and over, but you just didn’t “get it”? This last week He has been speaking “the Sandman cometh” to me. I didn’t understand this phrase until the Lord gave me a dream on the 7th.
In this dream sand was blown into my home at a rapid rate of speed, and I had to
work fast to call others inside and close the door. I could see the “Sandman” in this dream. He was a monster, not a nice man who helped people go to sleep.
The words “the Sandman cometh” had been spoken as a warning of something about to happen. This dream was about a spirit which causes spiritual slumber. Our enemy’s motive is to steal the works we do for God – our harvest. It is the season that the Lord is looking for our fruit from the seeds He planted in our hearts. Will we continue in our calling and using our gifts until we have something to give Him, or will we slumber?
Slumber is also representative of forgetfulness. Though our God never forgets, we often do. Spiritual slumber can cause a Christian to forget the good intentions of his heart and lose motivation to finish the work he began. In addition to forgetting what we are doing, we can forget who we are. Past victories, and the dreams waiting to come to pass can seem so distant to us that they eventually seem unreal. This happened to the Israelites over and over. They simply forgot God’s purposes in their lives and who they were to Him.
Though none of us wants to forget past victories, who we are in God, or God’s plans for our lives, there is a rest that comes with sleep which draws the natural man to it. Life is full, and often stressful. Sometimes we want to just “tune out” and rest our minds. We engage in mindful recreation and participate in things that relieve the stresses in our lives.
But there is a better “rest” appointed to us. It is the Sabbath rest, one which restores our souls without causing us to forget. On Christmas I had received a word of prophecy about this rest, and feel led to repeat from it here. In our times of rest we should appreciate our works, just like our heavenly Father did when He finished creating the heavens and the earth. He saw that His works were “good” (Gen 1:31). This was His first rest, yet there is another rest we read about in Hebrews. Until God enters His second rest we are given a covenant of the Sabbath in which we rest. If we rest once a week, it will keep us from the temptation to enter spiritual slumber. If we appreciate our works, our lives, and all the Lord has blessed us with we will not sleep the slumber of forgetfulness. The appreciation of our works will also keep our motivation for them fresh and alive, and we will bear much fruit for the Lord. Amen
