Romans 13: 11-14
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now our salvation is nearer to us than we believed.
It's time to wake up! God's church has been so asleep through this whole "church age" in most of us just keeping to ourselves, not making waves, not making any extra effort to go out and tell people.
There has always been the few who are celebrated as Great Saints in each generation, but the great masses of children in God's family have let them do all the work.
The night is almost gone, and the Day is near.
The night of everyday sameness is almost over, because we are rapidly approaching the end of the Last Days that Jesus told us about in Matthew 24: 3-51, then He spent all 46 verses of the next chapter describing different aspects of the Kingdom in parables.
It's up to us, people, brothers and sisters, to get off the stick and boldly step out of the comfortable box and do the work of promoting His Kingdom. Every believer can be a "super saint" by totally giving ourselves to the Lordship of our King. This is His Kingdom, and it will be our kingdom, too, as we sit in His throne with Him ruling under His authority as His kings and queens!
Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
It's time to change our focus, and get serious about preparing for this near future by putting on the armor God provides us, found in Ephesians 6: 10-18.
Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.
Let's not be carried away in partying, late nights, and worldly carryings on. Wear the armor deliberately to protect yourself from all the fiery darts of the enemy and the World and our own flesh, to set our focus on spiritual things that will last forever, and learn to be good and faithful servants of our King.
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.
Wear Christ as the Love you put on as your overcoat, to fill in any gaps the armor might leave, to eliminate any vulnerability we would have to provide even the smallest path back into our previous worldly attitudes; burn the ships, and don't look back. It's Onward Christian Soldiers.
O my Father, please help us all to realize how late the hour is, how little time we have left to get Your work done! Father, we're out of leisure time, it's time to get to work!
Wake us all up, Father; get us all working together to get the Word out, that everybody alive will be able to hear and understand that You Love them so much! And You have already provided for their every need in Your Son, as our Savior and Lord and King. And our gentle Bridegroom!
O Father, wake me up! Get me out of my bed and out spreading Your Good News to everyone in my little world. Teach me what You would have me do, what You would have me say, who You would have me approach because You have prepared their heart to hear.
And every eye shall see, every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus is our Christ, our Lord God Almighty, King of the Universe, to the eternal glory of Almighty God the Father, forever and ever, Amen.
Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus!
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