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\nTwenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost \/ Thirteenth Sunday of Luke, November 29, 2015
\nEphesians 5:8-19; Luke 18:18-27
\nRev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick<\/i><\/p>\n

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen.<\/p>\n

O<\/span>ne of my favorite metaphors for spiritual conversion is to awaken from sleep. There is actually a lot about spiritual life that resembles sleeping or waking up. And today we hear this metaphor used by the Apostle Paul as he speaks to the Ephesians.<\/p>\n

But he begins by first talking about darkness: \u201cWalk as children of light (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), proving what is acceptable to the Lord; and have no communion with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them; for it is a shame even to speak of the things which they do in secret.\u201d<\/p>\n

We are supposed to be \u201cchildren of the light,\u201d and to \u201cwalk\u201d as though we are, to \u201chave no communion with the unfruitful works of darkness.\u201d Now, when we think of \u201cunfruitful works of darkness,\u201d we may think of what we would consider \u201cbig\u201d sins, such as murder or adultery. So if we\u2019re not doing those things, then we don\u2019t have a \u201cdarkness problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that kind of thinking gets us off track in the spiritual life. Why? It is because all<\/i> sin is \u201cdarkness.\u201d When someone lusts in his heart, it is darkness. When someone views pornography, it is darkness. When someone harbors judgmentalism or hatred for another, it is darkness. When someone does not show kindness to someone in need, it is darkness. The list can go on and on. Every time we do not live like our Lord Jesus Christ, it is darkness. To live in darkness is not just to do some \u201cbig\u201d bad thing, but it is anything which is not walking in the light of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

I believe this thinking is why many people do not come to confession\u2014they believe that they really have no sins \u201cworth\u201d confessing. Sure, there are some \u201clittle\u201d things, but are those things really worth bringing to confession? No one\u2019s perfect, right?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true\u2014no one is perfect. But we are Christians, so we\u2019re not content to remain imperfect. We are called to become perfect\u2014Jesus was explicit about that in Matthew 5:48. So a lot of what we think is \u201clittle\u201d is really not. But we just don\u2019t understand it clearly yet. We are so used to walking around in very dim light that we do not realize that it is actually darkness. The question is not \u201cDo I live a good life?\u201d If we asked. \u201cHow close am I to perfect?\u201d we would be getting closer, though since most of the time we think of \u201cperfection\u201d as moral goodness, we wouldn\u2019t really be all the way there yet.<\/p>\n

We are all living in darkness. That does not mean that we are overwhelmingly evil, but we are still in darkness. But we so associate darkness with utmost evil that the metaphor of darkness may not quite communicate to us what we need to understand here. It is still very hard for most of us to say with any honesty, \u201cYes, I walk in darkness.\u201d We can intellectually know that it\u2019s true, but it may not really hit home for us. I can agree that it\u2019s true, but my feeling may be that it is only darkness in a technical sense. I\u2019m not really<\/i> in darkness. I\u2019m a pretty good person.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I really like where the metaphor goes next. Paul continues to use darkness as a metaphor for sin, but then he says this: \u201cBut all things when they are exposed are made manifest by the light, for everything that is made manifest is light. Therefore he says: \u2018Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine upon thee.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

So now the metaphor is expanded\u2014our spiritual state is not just darkness, but the darkness of sleep<\/i>. So if our sin is sleep<\/i>, then our situation becomes more clear. In sleep, we are subject to all kinds of dreams and thoughts. Have you ever had a dream where everything seemed to make sense in the dream, but then when you woke up and remembered the dream, it all seems totally wacky and you wonder how that stuff ever made sense? I\u2019ve had those dreams.<\/p>\n

There are, of course, good dreams and bad dreams. I am not speaking here of good dreams, like \u201cI dream that someday I will have a big family.\u201d I am speaking of how dreams distort order and logic. The things we think and see in sleep have their own inner logic that makes sense. And in those dreams, we may do things that we never would if we were awake. That is why they are dreams. They are not real. <\/p>\n

The same is true in spiritual life. We function asleep much of the time. We are at rest in the logic of the spiritual worlds in which we live. And in those worlds, we are moral beings. In those worlds, being \u201ca good person\u201d is the key to spiritual life. In those worlds, what we do makes sense, and it all fits within the order that is the context of our slumber.<\/p>\n

But then: \u201cAwake, O sleeper! And arise from the dead!\u201d For the spiritual dreams we dream turn out to lead us toward spiritual death. They are unreal, but their result is real. It is a sleep of death, a sleep that governs everything for us, most of the time. It is why, even though we know<\/i> what we need to do in order to become perfect, even though we know<\/i> what it takes to become righteous as Jesus Christ is righteous, even though we know<\/i> what it takes to be filled with the Holy Spirit, we do not do it<\/i>. Our sleep has superimposed a different order, a different, dream-logic in which what we do makes total sense, even though it is not in accordance with what has been revealed to us by God. This is the Scripture\u2019s definition of chaos and darkness, that everyone does what seems right in his own eyes (Judges 21:25).<\/p>\n

So what must we do to wake up? The key is in what Paul says in full here: \u201cAwake, O sleeper, And arise from the dead, and Christ will shine upon thee.\u201d When the light comes in the window of our slumber, it wakes us up. The distorted logic of our dreams is swept away in the light of day. Suddenly, what made sense no longer makes sense. Suddenly, what we were doing before seems absurd. Suddenly, everything has changed.<\/p>\n

And that is what spiritual conversion is like, whether it is the first-time conversion of a new believer, the conversion of a nominal or low-energy Christian to one who is engaged, or the conversion of a genuinely engaged Christian to a higher level of holiness.<\/p>\n

And why does this work? It is because Christ<\/i> has shone upon the sleeper. The light of Jesus Christ changes how we see things. His light wakes us up, cleanses our perceptions, gives us clarity of vision and thought and heart. We begin to see things we did not see before.<\/p>\n

And we realize that not only were we behaving absurdly, that the logic of our spiritual sleep really does not make any sense, but that there are whole opportunities to be had, a whole life to be lived. That is how it is when we wake up from our dreams. We get up, get ready and go live. We work on our projects. We achieve our goals. We work on our relationships. We get things done.<\/p>\n

In spiritual life, the same is true. We don\u2019t wake up just so that we stop sinning. We wake up so we can begin living<\/i>. Whole worlds of possibility open up before us when we see the light of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

So, finally, if I am spiritually asleep, if I am dreaming those bizarre dreams where I do and say and think things that only seem<\/i> to make sense, how do I wake up to the light of Jesus Christ?<\/p>\n

To key is to come into His presence so we can see that light.<\/p>\n

We know how to do that. We can see the light of Christ in private prayer, in corporate prayer, in self-sacrifice, in generosity, in studying the Scripture, in learning about the Christian faith, in humbling ourselves\u2014there are so many ways. But we cannot wake up from our spiritual sleep and see the light of Christ if we do not do them.<\/p>\n

Many times, it takes only one<\/i> of those ways. And we wake up. And then we begin to see what we have never seen. And life begins.<\/p>\n

To Christ, Who is our light, be all glory, honor and worship, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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