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Wake Up
WAKE UP!
Greg King
Have you ever known of someone that was asleep at the wheel? I don’t remember the first time I heard that statement or the context in which it was made but its meaning is clear. To say someone is asleep at the wheel means that they aren’t paying attention to reality. When someone falls asleep while driving the result can be disastrous. The same is true spiritually. Paul states in Romans 13:11, “Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.”Sleep is used in the scriptures as a metaphor for a life of moral carelessness and laziness. It is time to be alert because the promise of our salvation is closer than when we started. Do not be sleepwalkers. Do not go through life in moral apathy and spiritual laziness. You know the time that we live in. We live in the time when the Lord could return at any moment without warning. Time, unfortunately, has become the enemy of some Christians. We grow cold and become lazy toward God because so much time has passed. They live life like the rich fool in Luke 12 who thought he had plenty of time to live. But salvation is nearer to us than when we first believed. We should live as sacrifices that are pleasing to God because we know the time and we are aware of what is coming. Do not be a sleeping Christian. Some Christians are sleeping, rather than being awake and prepared. Too many Christians are not living their lives as if today is their last day. Too many are not living for Christ to return at this very moment. Instead they make lame excuses for not worshipping and serving the Lord. WAKE UP and get serious about your relationship with the Lord!
