A Spiritual Stupor

A spiritual stupor is like a coma where we are spiritually alive, but lack consciousness, involvement, and responsiveness to God, similar to a physical.

It is characterized by spiritual lethargy, a contentment with a superficial faith, neglect, spiritual discipline, like reading the Bible and praying. It’s a lack of conviction of sand, and an overall spiritual apathy. This makes us vulnerable to spiritual deception that can lead to disconnection from our faith and God’s will.

While I believe that the murder of Chalie Kirk, spiritually awakened people. I wonder how many will fall back into to their spiritual comas. I know I felt something shift when this happened. It made me realize I have to step up my game and be more bold.

There are some characteristics of a spiritual coma, that we need to recognize so, we don’t fall back into that trap.

The characteristics of a spiritual coma are:

• Spiritual Inactivity: A believer in a spirit of coma that becomes an inactive follower of Jesus, losing consciousness of God in their lives.
• Neglect of Spiritual Practices: This is the lack of engagement with spiritual discipline, such as consistent Bible reading, personal prayer, or quiet time with God.
• Apathy and Complacency: People in this state become accustomed to routine spiritual practices, lead to spiritual lethargy or contentment with doing the bare minimum in their faith.

• Prioritizing other things: spiritual things lose their priority as we focus on or be calm, preoccupied with distractions, other people, or worldly concerns.

• Apathy in Worship: This happens when we have a lack of compassion or a heart of worship, leading to shallow in involvement, and not fully experiencing God‘s presence.

• Lack of Conviction of Sin: when we are in a spiritual coma, we become less aware of our own sin and more focused on the sin of others.

It’s easy to get into the practice of religion and below by a state of spiritual slumber, where we go through the motions without a genuine connection.

When we are in a spiritual coma, we can be susceptible to spiritual attack and deceptions from Satan. We become not as spiritually alert.

When we are disconnected from God, it can lead to our source of spiritual life, being worldly and lacking sustenance.

We need to make sure we are awakened to the Word of God. When we are encountered with the willingness to be stirred, it can serve as a wake up call and the source of the nourishment of our spirits.

We need to open ourselves up to the intervention of others. Our friend and like-minded believers can provide spiritual support and encouragement, and it reminds us of God‘s truth.

We have to to have the desire to dig deeper. A desire for a deeper connection with God. It’s the realization of the seriousness of the spiritual coma that can lead to deep yearning, and a deliberate choice to reengage with God and have a spiritual life. 

“The task is not to seek love, but merely seek to find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.”