God's Alarm Clock

April 23

Do you want to know what is wrong in America today? Too many sermons are like bedtime stories rather than reveilles, and God’s alarm clock is going off all around us.

God’s Word teaches us that Jesus is coming as a thief in the night (see 1 Thessalonians 5:2, 2 Peter 3:10). And His word also teaches, “Ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness” (1 Thessalonians 5:4-5).

How can you sit comfortably in a church pew when civilization is crumbling around you? It’s time you woke up and stop rolling over and yawning in the face of God. The night is far past.

So many of our churches are like Samson, asleep in the lap of Delilah. And when we wake up we don’t know that the Spirit has departed from us; we go out into the world with no power.

How do you wake up? The same way I woke up this morning. Not by feeling like it, but just getting up anyway. You don’t push the snooze button.

Adrian Rogers

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