Wake Up Calls

Last week I heard a sermon about the alarm clock of our life. Alarms are a warning. A sign that we need to be alert and ready for action. However, many times our alarm goes off and we press snooze. We decide we do not want to deal with the problem, and want to continue on autopilot for a bit longer. However after a while, we become use to the alarms and no longer  notice when they go off. When this happens, we are likely to miss the signal all together. This message got me thinking. How many alarms have I ignored in the last year? How many times in the last month or week have I made the choice to press “snooze”? For me, I ignore alarms more often than I care to admit. However, in the last five months, I have experienced so many alarms it has become too loud to ignore the sound. It is time for me to wake up, to start responding. We never know when our lives will end. It could be in 60 years or it could be in an hour. All I know, is that it is time to react. Time to get up and answer the calls we have been missing.