Day #9

I woke up this morning at 8:15 a.m. My son’s bus usually comes at 8:00. Oh, no, we both overslept! I realized. I got up and called for him. There was no answer; I did not even hear the usual alarm clock bellowing out its loud, steady beat. So I ascended the stairs, calling as I went. As I turned the corner, I noticed that Jonathan was not in bed. He had gotten dressed, caught the bus, and even closed the front door on his way out, something that he failed to do in the past. I was very proud of my son.

About that time, my cell phone rang and it was a friend admonishing me to rise. “The sun is so beautiful this morning,” she exclaimed, like the chorus of a great hymn. “The sky is blue and the sun seems to be so close to the earth! You should be outside on your porch enjoying the morning sun,” she continued. “There is no icy wind like yesterday! It’s just beautiful!”

Well, with all that admonishment, I went to look out the window and there was the sun in a well-defined orb, just as she said, and its powerful rays beaming down on the landscape. I gathered a thirsty blanket, took my Bible and my devotional and sat on my deck. A crisp, fall morning with the warmth of the sun on your face, a thirsty blanket around you, and your dog finally entering into that rest too! Beautiful! I read my Bible passage, Ephesians 6, which encouraged me to be strong in the Lord! My devotional MAKING EYE CONTACT WITH GOD cautioned me about looking at things with “calamitous eyes.” Everything was so charged with the presence of God! My friend’s electric muster reminded me of a passage from Ephesians 5 that I had read previously:  “Awake, sleeper, and Arise from the dead, And Christ [Messiah] will shine on you” (14).

Wasn’t that indeed a Yeshua moment! When we awake and arise, Messiah will shine on us! Did you feel like staying in bed today!? Awake, o sleeper!  Do you feel like not dealing with that son, that daughter, that situation? Arise from the dead and let Messiah shine upon you!

Father, thank you that as we are strong in you by putting on the whole armor of God, that we will not see this world through calamitous eyes. Even the bad things will look differently as we see them with your eyes! As we shake off the sleep and the deadness, we WILL walk in the light of Messiah! Amen!

APPLICATION: Call someone and rouse them out of their sleep, their deadness and bring them into the light of Messiah!