I remember, a number of years ago, that when I checked into a hotel, I would call the front desk and ask for a wake up call the next morning. I cannot remember the last time I did that. It seems that hotels and motels have now placed alarm clocks in the rooms. Besides that our cell phones have alarms and who wouldn’t rather wake up to your own unique alarm tone.
There are a lot of wake up calls in life. For me, there have been wake up calls about health. These can be ignored but often at great price. So when the call comes health wise we change how we eat or exercise or conduct our lives. There are other wake up calls in life, ones that deal with relationships or jobs or how we live our lives.
Here is an important item however. On the clock and on our phones, we can hit the snooze button and act like the alarm did not go off. When the wake up call from the front desk was in use, there was no snooze button. And, there is no snooze button on a hungry cat or dog in the morning.
You know we do this with jobs, relationships and even with God. We hit the snooze button! We have a job that we used to love but alarms started going off about how the job is affecting us and we hit the snooze button. Sometimes, it is true, it isn’t time to wake up yet. Other times, we cannot bring ourselves to face the change. Relationships are like this as well, in fact even harder to deal with. We see signs that things should change (alarms going off) and we hit the snooze. What we need sometimes is a call from the front desk. I have had one or two of those in my life, when I hit the snooze too often.
So here is the real question: Are we hitting the snooze button in our relationship with God? Shouldn’t we just go ahead and “get up”? God is continuously waking us up to the world, to ourselves, and to God’s very presence in our lives. I know I need to stop hitting the snooze button and just go ahead and get up, be up, and stay up when it comes to the living God inside of me. If I am not mistaken, Jesus did this with Lazarus……and Lazarus did not have to be asked twice, he got up and came out of the tomb.
This day, we are being called to rise from the dead (that being our way of doing things). Let’s just get up, walk out of our tombs and see the face of the living Christ.
TMM