WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO-GO

I was only seven or eight, but I can remember it like it was yesterday. I woke up, and I couldn’t open my eyes. I was terrified. In my three-year-old mind, I thought I had gone blind overnight!! Mom came running in after I screamed. She called my doctor, and he said to put a warm rag on my eyes to dissolve the stuff on them, and to come see him that afternoon. You know when you wake up in the morning and you have stuff in the corners of your eyes? Well, that’s what was all over my eyes that sealed the shut. As it turns out it was a minor infection that was gone in a few days.

The main thing I remember about that day – after the initial shock – is trying to walk around without being able to see. Being the klutz that I am, I’m sure I walked away from that day with bruises all over me!!

Fast-forward about 23 years to last week. It was about 4:30 in the morning when I woke up and had to go to the bathroom. Not wanting to get out of bed, I put it off thinking I could go back to sleep. Well, sleep didn’t come, so by the time I got up I really had to go! J So I got out of bed and started walking to the bathroom. I walk to my door, then BAM!! I ran right into my closed door. I wasn’t awake enough to remember that my door was closed and that I needed to open it. Told you I was a klutz!

Everywhere I look there are people walking around that either can’t see because of the virus in their souls, or they just haven’t been awake long enough to have it all together. And then you have those who just choose not to see the death and the destruction going on around them.

I catch myself way too many times being too busy or not knowing enough about an issue or just simply looking the other way from what really matters. God wants to be first in our lives, but we catch a “virus” or an “infection” – anything that takes our attention from Him – and we focus on that. Sometimes we’ll be walking and not see that God’s closing door all around us trying to guide us in the right direction, and we walk right into them. He’s going to do everything He can to try and guide us the direction He’d have us go, but it’s up to us if we really want to see where He’s leading us.

Lord, help me to see You. Wake me up from my zombie state and help me to focus on You. When Satan tries to infect my soul, help me fight the infection with Your Word. Don’t let me just look away from those that are hurting, and help me to see You in them. Amen.