Saul of Tarsus, who was a violent persecutor of the first Christians, went from spiritual stupor to a super relationship with the living Jesus! For the rest of His life, he boldly proclaimed that Jesus is alive and wrote much of the New Testament. He was eventually executed for His faith in Christ.

Wake up, sleeper, from your spiritual stupor. Step out of the shadows and let the living Jesus shine on you. Continually soak up His radiance.

Stupor toward God and toward your conscience (unawareness, insensitivity, and unresponsiveness) is sneaky. It makes the living, resurrected Jesus seem like a mere myth, an ancient historical figure, or a being confined to Heaven.

Don’t settle for stupor. God created you to have a super relationship with Him. Religion, without the active and direct presence, reality, and Headship of the risen Jesus, subtly produces a dazed state of spiritual stupor — “a form of godliness but denying the power thereof.”

The living Jesus turned Paul’s stupor into vibrant awareness of His presence and power! If you will continually open your heart to the risen Jesus and begin to daily read the Bible like an intimate love letter written from God to you personally (instead of like a college textbook) Christ’s supernatural presence will banish your stupor with His glorious light.

The Bible is an alarm. It’s a super stupor detector that will wake you up to the supernatural reality of Jesus, if you will humbly listen to it.

Here are some signs of being in a spiritual stupor.

* Most of the time Jesus is off of your radar.
* You rarely if ever read the Bible and when you do you quickly tire of it.
* God seems more like a distant theory than a present reality to you.
* You feel like attending church is all the spirituality that you need.
* People who live like Jesus is alive and present throughout the day annoy you.
* You seldom notice your conscience and when you do you mostly resist it.
* You enjoy entertainment that is contrary to God’s values and principles.
* You think that you’re a good person and that everything’s alright between you and God.