Jesus, Wake Me UP!

​Do you like to sleep? There is a study from the Sleep Foundation that reported that each adult needs 7 to 9 hours daily. 

​Stories from church history also cast a shadow over my bed. I read with wonder how Hudson Taylor sometimes rose at 2:00am to read and pray until 4:00am (Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret, 243). George Whitefield, too, was known to begin his day well before dawn, sometimes finishing both his devotions and his first sermon by 6:00am (George Whitefield: God’s Anointed Servant, 196). And did not the Puritans get just a few hours of sleep a night? The post-Puritan William Law seemed to capture the spirit of the godliest saints when he spoke of “renouncing sleep” to redeem the time (When I Don’t Desire God, 160).

​The phrase "wake up Christians" is a common biblical call to spiritual alertness, rooted in passages like Romans 13:11, “This is all the more urgent, for you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed,” which urges believers to wake from spiritual sleep because salvation is near. It serves as a reminder to move past apathy and live actively in faith.

​God has no intention of making your life meaningless. He put you here and, in your world, right where you are, for his plan. He has a purpose for your life, whether you have been following Jesus a long time or you are just getting started. No matter what your life has been like, your past has not ruined the future God has for you. But you must wake up to it. He is inciting a spiritual revolution in the hearts of his people. If you have not yet joined, today the revolution is coming to you. What are you going to do about it? Wake up!

Make Every Day Count!

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