WAKE UP!

Revelation 3:2-3 AMP
Wake up, and strengthen and reaffirm what remains [of your faithful commitment to Me], which is about to die; for I have not found [any of] your deeds completed in the sight of My God or meeting His requirements.
[3] So remember and take to heart the lessons you have received and heard. Keep and obey them, and repent [change your sinful way of thinking, and demonstrate your repentance with new behavior that proves a conscious decision to turn away from sin]. So then, if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to 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.
Alarm clocks have become a modern-day necessity, so many of us cannot function without setting alarms, we have alarms for all kinds of things whether needed or not.
Wake up calls are common in hotels all over the world. You let the hotel’s front desk know you’ll like them to wake you at a particular time and sometimes how they should wake you, and at the agreed time, the phone rings and a computer-generated voice can be heard telling you it’s time to get up.
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 and 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 wake up!
Ecclesiastes 3:1 says to everything there is a season, and there’s 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,” you and I to wake up from our death-sleep, to 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 was 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 to make 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.
Shalom

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