WAKE UP!

Revelation 3:2-3 TLB

Now wake up! Strengthen what little remains-for even what is left is at the point of death. Your deeds are far from right in the sight of God. [3] Go back to what you heard and believed at first; hold to it firmly and turn to me again. Unless you do, I will come suddenly upon you, unexpected as a thief, and punish you.

 

Wakey! Wakey! It’s time to get up! Get up! Look alive and alert; time waits for no one. Stop sleeping the time away. Stop snoozing the alarm.

Alarm clocks have become a modern-day necessity. Many of us cannot function without setting alarms; we have alarms for all kinds of things, whether needed or not. I most certainly do. Otherwise, we would miss a lot of things, forget or ignore something, and be late for many other things.

Wake-up calls are common in hotels all over the world. You let the hotel's front desk know you’d like them to wake you at a particular time, and sometimes, you can even tell them how they should wake you. At the agreed time, the phone rings, and a computer-generated voice can be heard telling you it’s time to get up.

Jesus is doing the same now. “Wakey, wakey, it’s time to wake up spiritually!”

You could be awakened by a knock on your door, the incessant ring of your phone, the cry of a child, a nudge, or any other way. A lot of times, we wake up because we’re tired of sleeping, but alas! Only the living who were asleep can be awakened. The dead don’t and cannot wake up!

Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; a time to sleep and a time to be awake." God called the light day, and the darkness He called night purposely in Genesis 1:5 because, according to Jesus in John 9:4, the night-time comes when you can’t “work.”

The text indicates that Christ is calling the “church,” that’s you and I, to wake up from our death-sleep, to become and remain alert, to stay awake to do kingdom business.

Wake up! A phrase used in stirring men to action. As Israel is called on to awake from its previous state of darkness and death in Isaiah 59:10 and Isaiah 60:2, for her Light has come, so the Church and everyone are called to wake up.

Believers are called on to wake up out of sleep; and unbelievers, to "arise" from the dead, knowing that now it is high time—literally, the hour has already come to awake out of sleep—of stupid, fatal indifference to eternal things according to Romans 13:11.

From Proverbs 20:13, we deduce that continuous sleep leads to poverty; when will you find time for anything of value if all your time is spent sleeping—both physical and spiritual sleep? Earthly activities are time-sensitive, and to keep abreast of them, we must observe the time to meet those demands; deadlines to meet. Imagine telling your boss that the project assigned to you that was due for completion a few days back is still not done because you were sleeping. I bet you’ll be complimented on your sleeping ability.

That’s exactly what we do with the Lord all the time—we’re either spiritually asleep or dead, making little or no difference in the areas the Lord has assigned to us, or we keep pushing things back until we think we’re ready. You want everything to be just right—"when I finish," whatever it is we think is more important than kingdom business—but time waits for no man. Wake up! When will you be ready?

We are creeping slowly but surely to the winding up of earthly matters. Christ is on His way. Wake up from your slumber and get on with kingdom business.

PRAYER: Lord, may the sound of the season and the call of the coming king wake me from spiritual slumber and keep me awake and alert for kingdom agenda in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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