Commentary:

     It is time to wake up!  We have been saved from sin and death.  We have been called to be lights in the world, a world of darkness and despair.  We possess the hope the world desperately needs (Matthew 5:14-16; Ephesians 5:8).  But the Church seems to be asleep.  Like the sleepy child that does not want to wake up and go to school, we resist, we roll over, mumble and complain, and cover our heads to hide from the light.  How absurd!  

     What Christ follower does not want to see revival? to see souls saved?  Yet our comfort, convenience, and desires are more important to us than the souls even of our own family that are daily dying and going to hell.  Revival begins with Christians.  Revival begins with individual Christ followers repenting and serving and praying and loving in their local churches and communities as Christ loved: in unity and selflessness.

      If physical comfort is more important than God, then who do you really serve?  If you are too busy to go to church more than once a week, if you you don't want to commit to a role of service for God because the effort would be inconvenient, because there are other things for yourself you would rather do, then who are you really serving?  

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And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.  The night is far spent, the day is at hand.  Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

(Romans 13:11-12 NKJV)

 

     It is time, and past time, to wake up.  The enemy has taken advantage of our laziness and slumber.  By serving self we have opened ourselves up to temptations:

• to follow our own wisdom rather than God's Word

• to indulge in pleasure rather than seeking to grow in Him

• to waste our blessings on self rather than use what God has blessed us with to further the kingdom of God.    

     God has given us everything we need to stand and fight and win the battle with the enemy.  When we stand before Him, will our words be revealed as gold and silver and precious gems? or will it all be burned up as dead grass and stubble (I Corinthians 3:11-15).  Will we be rewarded? or will we be ashamed.  This physical life is like a puff of wind.  Are you using your energy to obtain physical goals and things that will be gone and forgotten in a moment of time? or are you working for eternal results that will last forever? 

It is time to wake up.​

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