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It wasn’t even Christmas. It was
early March. But she acted as if it were. My wife’s excitement
opening a box was equal to any child on Christmas morning. What
could have her so giddy? Catch this: a brand-new alarm clock. (LOL!
How many holidays did I waste with jewelry?) Alarm clock? What’s the
big deal? Well, this wasn’t your average alarm clock. It came with a
“sun up light” feature. In other words, as her alarm was 20 minutes
away from sounding, a yellowish, sun-like light, would begin softly
and then grow brighter and brighter illuminating the room. Sounds
silly, but her excitement was real. However, from excitement to
frustration. Setting it to actually work seriously tested my
patience. The directions were written in simple English but the
clock wouldn’t submit to my simple commands. We lost days testing
it. Each morning, she’d announce with great disappointment; “It
didn’t work.” I re-read the instructions and then re-read them
again. And then, almost as if it had a mind of its own, it started
working. Luck mostly. Now, before the ear-piercing alarm startles us
to alertness, we now get the enjoyment of a soft morning sunrise
begging us to awake. (truth is…we sleep through that too)
Easter is a yearly trumpet blast for people to receive a wake-up
call. All of mankind is asked again to wake up to the reality of
God, wake up to the fact that Jesus did raise from the grave, wake
up to the truth there really is a heaven. Or, we can hit the snooze
bar and put it all off hoping for more time and another year. We can
gamble with our eternity.
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God is issuing yet another wake-up
call. Is there a chance you’re asleep? the wake-up call is still
soft and gentle, begging for our attention. But one day, when the
second coming of Jesus starts, it will come with a loud and clear
trumpet blast. It will be too late then to accept Jesus’
forgiveness. It will be too late to pray, too late to repent, too
late change course. Your eternity will be set. This could be our
last Easter together. I’m not saying it is. I’m no prophet but what
if it was and you wasted this moment?
Please accept our invitation to attend Lincoln Christian Church this
Easter and WAKE-UP! Time is ticking. “Wake up, sleeper, rise from
the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” Ephesians 5:14
[Ron Otto
Lincoln Christian Church] |
