Amen brother, it was the same way to me, like waking up from the matrix. It still blows my mind at how blind I was and how very wrong I saw the world. I praise His mighty name for opening my eyes to reality.
That's how I describe it, like waking up from a deep sleep. That is also how the words of the Lord describe it,
Awake to righteousness and sin not! Paul said those who sleep, sleep in the night (darkness) as the Lord showed in the beginning He separated darkness
from the Light, and He made a lessor light
to rule the darkness, and the greater Light to rule the day. In this we can see who rules the children of
darkness, and who rules the children of
the day, and of
the Light.
Now when we once were asleep we might have dreamt we were awake, but when the Lord came and awakened us from our sleep, we knew for sure then we were truly AWAKE, and were no longer just dreaming in the night.
1 Thessalonians 5:4-8 "But ye, brethren, are not
in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.[SUP]
5 [/SUP]Ye are all the children
of light, and the children of
the day: we are not of
the night, nor
of darkness.
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6 [/SUP]Therefore let us
not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
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7 [/SUP]
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken
in the night.
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8 [/SUP]But let us, who are of
the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.