Wake Up!

​As a Christian who loves and serves the Lord Jesus Christ I am blessed and very grateful that I have lived my life and raised my family in the United States of America.
But every day my heart is heavily burdened with concern for my country.
While multitudes of Americans are sleeping at our nation’s moral wheel, sinister, evil forces are working feverishly and overtime through naïve, misguided, morally lost people who are committed to toppling and destroying our Judea/Christian nation.  
‘Woke” is one of them.
My friends, America needs to wake up. But not the “Woke” way.
Contrary to its zealous adherent’s claims, “Woke” is not enlightened. The truth is “Woke” is dark. “Woke” is founded upon and operates in spiritual/moral darkness.
The souls of “Woke” subscriber’s dwell in ever-deepening, dark shadows of death. The prince of darkness, Satan, is the one who tricks vulnerable, gullible folks into believing and buying into the lie that “Woke” is the new truth. Truth that will liberate humankind into a glorious utopia that sets each of us free to be whatever we decide and choose to be.  
“Woke” is not some noble, life elevating wake-up call. Quite the contrary. “Woke” is dangerous. It is a deceived, deluded, immoral movement, espousing unholy, unsacred, unrighteous, perverse, indecent, degrading human conduct. “Woke” arrogantly, and at times violently, opposes what Almighty God declares in the Bible to be holy, sacred, righteous, good and decent.
“Woke” is not awake. It is asleep, blind to God’s holy Word in the Bible.  
WAKE UP READERS. “Woke” is not a silly joke to be laughed at. Our nation made that mistake when we made fun of homosexuals in the 1970’s, blind and naively oblivious to the crafty strategy of the devil to begin to chip away one deception after another at our nation’s moral core and code.
It deeply saddens, maddens and grieves my spirit that “Woke” is being force fed to innocent kindergarten children. Oh God, please spare our little ones from the perversion that is presented to their innocent minds and hearts as normal and acceptable. Who is going to save the children? You? Me? Christians? Who?
“Woke” folks are in for a soul-shocking surprise when the cosmic curtain is pulled back and realize they, like dumb sheep, have swallowed hook line and sinker an insidious lie that has negative eternal consequences. If they do not receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior before they die, they will awaken in hell, not “Woke”, but woe is me! What did I do to myself? Why did I believe a lie when Jesus showed me the truth and His love for me throughout my life?
I am not surprised about “Woke”.  The Bible reveals perilous times in the last days (II Timothy 3:1-15, Jude 17-25, I Peter 4:12-19). Immorality will abound. I expect the world to be “Woke”. But I am shocked and stunned that some so-called churches have welcomed ‘Woke” to their congregations. What would Jesus say about that today?  
Fellow Christians, can anything turn the “Woke” tide”. I believe with all my heart that America’s answer for revival, restoration, renewal and redemption is not to wake up to “woke”.
It is to WAKE UP TO RIGHTEOUSNESS.
The Apostle Paul, inspired by the Holy Spirit, would have this to say to “Woke”. Addressing Christians, the apostle of grace made it clear that righteousness is God’s will for His people.
“Awake to righteousness and stop sinning. Some have no knowledge of God; I speak this to your shame.” I Corinthians 15:34 (KJV).
“Awake sleeper, arise from the dead and Christ will shine on you.” Ephesians 5:14.
And this do, knowing the time, that it is already to hour to awaken from sleep; for salvation is nearer to us than when we believed.” Romans 13:11.
Three major thoughts in these verses.

1. Awake to righteousness. The Bible reveals that our Creator, Almighty God is righteous. Righteousness means being and doing what is right. Rightness, if I may put it that way, flows from God who is the author and enforcer of right and wrong. God’s people and the lost world need to wake up to what God declares is right. Wrong can never be right. What is right in the sight of God is what is right for you, me and everyone else.  

 

1. Awaken from sleep. Paul exhorted believers in Christ to wake up to what is right. Turn our moral clock off snooze mode. Christians are to live their daily life according to the guidelines of right and wrong in the Word of God. The Ten commandments would be a good place to start!

 

1. Stop sinning. You and I cannot walk in Christ’s righteousness if we willfully sin. Unrighteousness, falling short of God’s righteous plans for you and me, is sin. Sin lulls people into a spiritual coma. Satan hunts down folks who are morally asleep. The evil one subtly suggests to spiritual sleepers that right is wrong and wrong is right.

 
My friends, please listen to me. WAKE UP to the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ.
 Sin is man’s deadly enemy. “The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23. Sin is always wrong, never right. Sin’s payday is eternal death. But God’s free gift to you and me is eternal life. Life in Christ.
My heart as I write is bursting with exhortation. You and I let’s ask God to search our heart. Ask the Lord to clean up whatever is sinful and unholy. Then commit ourselves to His righteousness in our daily life. Let’s choose to stand firm and walk by faith every day in joyful obedience to God’s commandments and guidelines for holy living.
People walking in the darkness of Satan’s damning shadow will never wake up if God’s people are asleep. I believe God has always and is now issuing a wake-up call to His righteous people to live right and reach out with Christ’s mercy and love to those who are living wrong.
You and I can make a difference. Next week I will write a few thoughts about staying awake.   
 America: Wake up “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave” before it is too late.
“Righteous exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” Proverbs 14:34
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen for His own inheritance.” Psalm 33:12
A Word For Your Week: Awaken to righteousness America.