Wake Up

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said:  “Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”  Ephesians 5:8-14

It is very easy as we go about our daily lives to fall asleep.  We get run down by the monotony of life.  Get up, go to work, come home, go to bed...and tomorrow do it all again.  Occasionally we will do something special, go on vacation, go to a concert have a special evening with friends and family.  However, for the most part, life is just a continuing succession of repetition.

One of the things about the Lenten season we are in right now, is that it is a call to wake up.  It is a reminder that this life has a purpose.  We are not just supposed to go through the motions of life.  We are to live life to its fullest potential.

Yet, because of sin we often do not live life to its fullest potential.  We get distracted by it.  It wears us down.  And in many cases causes the continuing succession of repetition that life can so easily become, to be the thing that most separates us from God.  Not because we want to separate ourselves from God, but because we loose focus and put life on ‘auto-pilot.’

Take the opportunity this Lenten season provides to examine your life.  See those areas you need to work on.  See the sin that separates you from God.  Remember that life has a purpose.