Wake Up

In my dreams I'm 6 foot 4 inches, I'm dating a super model, and I own a summer house in Fiji. But it always seems that the slightest noise or a single beam of light awakens me at just the moment it couldn't possibly be better. 

Then there are those moments in my sleep when nightmares of being suspended in the air with no measure of ground in sight or being squeezed between two walls feeling pressure from every direction that I'm thankful to be awakened at any time of the night. 

Perhaps the pendulum that swings from one extreme to the other; from sweet dreams and wishful thinking to night terrors and extreme misfortune, would be best suited to simply find a balance of some happy medium.

Our lives are chock full of happy and sad moments; the blessings of a loving God and the pain of a world full of hate. It seems our sensational views are always circumventing our circumstances to say "life couldn't be any better" or "life couldn't be any worse."

Life often seems to leave us in a state of sponsored pride or pity; feeling like I'm something more or less than who I really am. We've either sunken too deep in our flaws to be helped or we've reach some apex of perfection to relinquish anyone's aid.

We need to admit that we are a bad and sinful people in need of a good and loving Father. A father who never sleeps. A father who will not neglect or abandon his kids. A father who is generous and responsible. A father who is constant and committed. A father who will be there when we wake up!

You can't save yourself. You can't be your own master. And you make a terrible god. Seriously, no amount of effort, money, work, or time can generate an acceptable version of you before God. But He made a way for you to become a presentable candidate for His family through the right-ness of His son. All you have to do is be awakened from this sleep, this death of a sin-stained life, and enter into the light and life of eternal bliss found only in the payment and promise of His son.

Wake up! This is not a dream! Realize that the dreams and nightmares you think are defining your current reality is incomparable to the identity being given to you by the One nudging your soul to awake. Your purpose, your mission is meant for more than dreaming; it's meant to live in an all-out pursuit of the One bringing those dreams to life!