If you have begun to sense the deep significance of life; if you have heard the gospel and felt a stirring of concern within your soul about your eternal state; do not go back to sleep again spiritually. Sense the urgency of the situation. If your conscience has begun to awaken, and you consider with horror sin’s indelible nature, and the consequences of what you have done before a holy God, then pray for further stirrings of conscience. Act immediately as you realise that for ages you soul has been asleep and now it is being awakened by the Spirit of God. Repent of those sins that have come into view; turn away from those sources of temptation; show Christ that you are in earnest and prepared to change at his command. Don’t simply go back to your old way of life and forget the preaching of the gospel. ‘Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.’ Seek the Lord, and pull back. Realise you are in a trap and deliver yourself from it.