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God's most significant work often happens when humans are seemingly inactive, unaware or even asleep. In biblical history this includes God creating Eve from Adam's rib while Adam slept. Abraham's covenant with God and Jacob's ladder dream both occurred during deep sleep. Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane and his subsequent crucifixion and resurrection, point us to the spiritual significance of Christ's sacrifice. For by Christ's death the power of death has been undone. When God laid His beloved Son into the dust of death, at that very moment, death was undone. Death was transformed. Those dead and forever gone are now merely sleeping. As we ourselves are laid into the dust of death, we should fear the grave as little as we fear our beds, for God does His most significant work when man is asleep.
God's most significant work often happens when humans are seemingly inactive, unaware or even asleep. In biblical history this includes God creating Eve from Adam's rib while Adam slept. Abraham's covenant with God and Jacob's ladder dream both occurred during deep sleep. Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane and his subsequent crucifixion and resurrection, point us to the spiritual significance of Christ's sacrifice. For by Christ's death the power of death has been undone. When God laid His beloved Son into the dust of death, at that very moment, death was undone. Death was transformed. Those dead and forever gone are now merely sleeping. As we ourselves are laid into the dust of death, we should fear the grave as little as we fear our beds, for God does His most significant work when man is asleep.