Time to Get Up

Due to a phone call, I was up over an hour ealier then normal. I stood on the front porch for a few minutes and watched the effects of the sunrise. Reminded me of the below words written in my journal ... little truths jotted down while listening to this sermon last Saturday. After a few minutes on the porch I walked into my kitchen and started making a bigger than normal week-day breakfast for my kind and generous husband. Biscuits with gravy, dip eggs, and freshly brewed coffee.

As Christians, we are engaged in the work of the great commission, which consists largely of waking people out of their beds "Christ is Risen; It's Time to Get Up!" Some nations got the word earlier, and some haven't got the word yet. But our task is to get everybody up because Christ is shining on them. This is an announcement, not a campaign. We are not getting them up to get up and vote so that it will be daylight, so that Christ will rise from the dead. No! Christ is already risen! It is daylight, therefore they should get up. And Christ is not just the "sun" at which which we stare. Christ is the light in which we see everything. He is the light in which we see economics, the light in which we see marriage, the light in which we see our parenting, the light in which we see our business, how we entertain ourselves, he is the light in which we see to mow the lawn, to drink a beer, in which we make love to our spouse, in which we discipline our children ... all of those things. Everything. There is no place in this world where the Sun's effects are not at work.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you. For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations. Psalm 22:27-28