Although sleep is a natural physical process, Scripture also uses sleep as a spiritual symbol of DEATH and as a negative symbol of LAZINESS. In other words, spiritual sleep is even much more dangerous than dozing off in a moving vehicle because you endanger not just your body or your life, but your eternal soul. Wake Up! If we are not alert, we can climb for many years and then fall asleep just before the greatest manifestation of God’s glory the world has ever seen!