Awaken! Arise!

It would be absurd to deliberately lose touch with God, who designed you for his unique and special purpose. Yet the cares of life and other distractions become barriers for staying in touch with your true self, your family, friends and Christ Jesus. You can build a wall that blocks communion with the Lord God.

German philosopher Frederick Nietzsche was credited with creating pandemonium with his proposal that God was dead. As he observed the church at worship, he concluded there was no passion, enthusiasm or joy accompanying attempts to worship God. Nietzsche saw no evidence of God's power in the lives of those who dutifully read their prayers and sang  hymns, so he deduced that God was dead in their lives.

God calls us to awaken from our spiritual slumber and return to him, the source of lasting joy and peace. Communion with God requires your determination to recapture a vision of how much God loves you and desires for you to be in fellowship with Him. 

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…God says in the Scriptures, “Awake, O sleeper, and rise up from the dead; and Christ shall give you light.” So be careful how you act; these are difficult days. Don’t be fools; be wise: make the most of every opportunity you have for doing good. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but try to find out and do whatever the Lord wants you to.

~Ephesians 5:14-17 The Living Bible