It's Time To Wake Up

Someone asked me several months ago if I'd ever written or recorded a spoken word. I hadn't. Had never even thought about it. 

Until this evening, when God put a phrase in my heart during worship time with my local ministry group that wouldn't go away. I started scribbling like a madwoman. He gave me another snippet on my way out the door, and another when I got home. I sat down at my computer, and the rest poured right out. 

I can't even read it without crying. I hope the Holy Spirit uses it to urge your heart as well.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jo59h371zl4a1ht/Voice%20023.m4a?dl=0

A Wake Up Call

As a nation we’re overworked and overwhelmed

We’re overachievers, we’re overwrought because we’ve overlooked and overpaid

But if we can’t be overcome by the presence of God

Then our nation will just be over.

Jesus is coming in a cloud of glory, and we just have our heads in the clouds.

We’re focused on what’s been and not what’s coming.

We’re looking behind in the rearview

And that picture is larger than it appears,

And it’s blocking our view

Of what’s ahead.

We’re dragging around chains that Jesus already broke

We’re holding parties in our jail cells instead of walking out our freedom.

We’re not walking in faith, we’re walking with blinders.

Blinded to the poor and the hungry, the orphans and widows

We’re so caught up in how we look to others we’re not looking at what’s in front of our face

We’re so blinded by social media and our latest clever status

That we miss society dying before our eyes.

Dying for a faith we won’t fully own.

Dying for truth while we’re peddling lies.

All in the name of religion.

We’ve forgotten the name of Jesus.

The name above all names, the name that is lifted high,

the name that will one day bring every knee low.

We’ve forgotten the authority we have in Christ,

Trading in our blessings for bowls.

Substituting temporary pleasures and feasts

While our souls and the souls around us starve.

We cast judgments on what we can’t control

We’re afraid to be real.

Afraid to bleed in public, afraid of the mess

While the walking wounded stumble around us

Believing they’re alone.

We’re a weary and broken generation.

We’re holding the shards of our hearts

And He’s holding the glue

But we won’t be still long enough

To let it set.

We’ve got to wake up.

We’ve got to stop hitting snooze and put our feet to our faith

We have to be the hands and feet of Jesus

We have to not just believe His word but obey it.

Our nation is in trouble.

This isn’t a game

Yet we’ve rolled the dice too many times

The get out of jail free cards have run out.

It’s time to wake up.

This is real life with real people, real souls, a real heaven and a real hell

 If we don’t put our feet to the fire

We risk losing our family and friends to eternal flames.

If we don’t stand up and step out

We’ll just keep walking in circles.

It’s time to risk it all.

At the sake of failure

At the sake of rejection

At the sake of poverty

At the sake of humiliation

It’s time to choose a side.

The crossroads is before you

Life or death?

Get right or get left.

God spits out the lukewarm. Get hot or grow cold.

Let your heart blaze with passion for the things of God

Or let your heart freeze over right hard.

It’s time to wake up.

The clock is ticking minutes we don’t have to spare

Passing seconds by the hour and our days are numbered

Numbered like the hair on our heads,

Like the stars and descendents God promised Abraham.

We’re numbered. And we matter. But if we don’t treat others like they matter

They’ll never recognize their worth.

You can’t save someone on your own but Christ in you might be the only Saviour someone sees.

It's time to wake up.