Alarmed

It was morning. I yawned sleepily, stretched indulgently,

and rolled over lazily to catch another moment of shut

eye, before the alarm went off.  I relished just a few

more minutes of repose before I rushed into the day

and hit the ground running.

Sleep evaded me however, and hard as I tried, I couldn’t drift off, so I reached for my phone to check the time. How much longer did I have before my alarm alarmed me, I wondered.

I stared at my phone, blinked, and blinked again. Really? According to my phone, my alarm call had started several minutes ago! But I couldn’t hear a sound - not even a vibration! No shrill wake up call, just an image of the alarm on my phone! I checked the sound and it was working. For some reason my phone alarm had malfunctioned. It was fortuitous that I had woken early!

Sound the alarm! Joel 2:1

As followers of Christ, we been tasked with the call to sound the spiritual alarm to our community, our families, and the world. As Christ gave the apostles the commissioning to take the gospel to the world, we have been tasked with the urgency of waking the world up from spiritual slumber, and share the loving invitation we received ourselves to enjoy Christ’s love, protection and mercy. Yet all too often we are silent, like the alarm, keeping quiet about our inner faith.

This week is there something you can do, or say, or pray, to help someone wake from their spiritual slumber, and discover Christ’s love shining upon them?

With Love,  Rev Gill x

Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Eph 5:14