And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. (Romans 13:11, NIV)
Ah! I missed opening four or five windows, with two surely being Bible Gateway and the forums. I also missed writing for twenty minutes the first thing in the morning so everyone could see throughout the day. Even more, I missed the snappy comments, the zany topics, my imagination stretched to its limits…constantly. It has been around three months since I stopped writing for whatever reason happened; I’m just happy to start over, but can there be more to writing than as I usually held true on?
Never has it occurred that we are “asleep” in ourselves, as living in a constant limbo. Without Christ, we’re just…snoozing around, looking for something to do. I guess there is a dream we’re prisoners of. Not of our aspirations, our goals, and our future, but just prisoners of unawareness of God. God will either snap us out of it now, or in the final day. (Don’t want to get 2012 on a real thing, but…)
At this point, I am used to writing how I miserably fail to uphold the chance that I can’t do anything. Yet things are different now, more than ever. The deciding moments of this Earth abide by people snapping out of their dream and long on to Christ. I know that I’m a constant snoozer, and that this verse is usually taken off personally. In this case, not so!
I now see what I will lose if I’m not careful. Trying to be more of an adult rather than being a child –and not harming myself in the process- is one thing, but being aware of Christ’s incoming return is another. At this moment, there is still something to hang onto. God is still giving us a window to wake up from the dream of death, and be sanctified in His blood. Again, we all have dreams, even more to those who hope in Christ, but where does it draw the line?
While we can’t conform to this world, what do we have as our Aid? Where many still live in the dream of judgment –the one I rightly deserve- , we are still living in the dream of hope, not of this world, but of the next. This is the hope that I want to live, preach, remember and die for, if it’s the case. This is the hope that is my anchor and dove. This is Joe, this is the God I serve, and this is my life.
