Awake

I am a night person.
And especially in Peru I find it a battle to get up every morning. As soon as I am conscious, I know that I have a long day ahead of me. I have a day of testing, a day of endurance. A day of comforting crying children and not knowing what is wrong. The thought of this, makes me want to roll over and drift off into oblivion.

God did not bring me here to be asleep.
He brought me here to be wide awake.

Awake in life.
Awake in spirit.

To be spiritually asleep is to be non-existent.
Without passion, without energy, no impact is made.

Jesus came to wake us up.

To merely go through the daily course of life isn't good enough.
God did not give you every day on this earth just so you could tolerate them. He gave you every day to be fully alive and awake in Him.
To be on fire with passion.
Passion in anything that you do. In teaching, in learning, in having a conversation, in cooking.

In living.

Be awake. Live and do what you do with so much energy and Life, because He died so we could have that Life.
Wake up from the sins of the world.

"wake up, o sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you" - Ephesians 5:14

Just think, if the souls of everyone were roused, how much power and impact could we have in the world?
The impact that we are called to make.

Wake up.