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“Wake Up and Be Awesome!”

On July 19, 2021 by Dteb With 0 Comments - down to earth believer

Public restrooms are not usually the sort of place where you find wisdom scrawled on the walls. However, the other day I saw something that woke me up better than two cups of strong coffee. It was an admonition on a plastic block:

“Wake up and be awesome!”

Appropriately enough, it was in the restroom of a local coffee shop.

I don’t find it easy to be awesome, but then I don’t find waking up a walk in the park either. I’m not talking about waking up physically. That I can do. But living an awake life—well, that is a different matter.

Henry David Thoreau said that very few people live lives that are truly awake. I am just awake enough to remember that Thoreau said that. However, having one eye open (or remembering that someone said that we ought to be awake) is not being fully awake.

The Scriptures speak of being awake too. Here are a few of these wake-up-and-smell-the-coffee verses:

Isaiah 52:1

“Awake, awake,

Clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion;

Clothe yourself in your beautiful garments,

O Jerusalem, the holy city;

For the uncircumcised and the unclean

Will no longer come into you.”

Ephesians 5:14

“For this reason it says,

‘Awake, sleeper,

And arise from the dead,

And Christ will shine on you.’”

Revelation 3:2

“Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God.”

Romans 13:11

“Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed.”

Psalm 57:8

“Awake, my glory!

Awake, harp and lyre!

I will awaken the dawn.”

May you and I have an awake day!

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