Snooze

Do you like to hit “snooze”?  I depend on an alarm to wake up because, like many, I am not one of those people who just “magically” wake up at 5:00 AM every morning.  My alarm gives me an option to snooze, allowing me to get 10 more minutes of sleep.  The thing is, you can hit that button as many times as you want, each time cashing in a little more of your day for a bit more sleep.

Some nights we don’t get enough sleep.  Some mornings that bed is just too dang comfortable.  It can get very tempting to sleep a little longer, to hit that snooze one more time.  Eventually though, we all have to drag ourselves up, grab a cup of coffee, and go.  

Our faith journey also tends to have days and nights.  When awake, what you can do with your time (the potential) is incredible but the harder we go after it, the more sleep we will need.  Your sleep becomes increasingly valuable and your bed more comfortable.  We begin the path of discipleship leaping out of bed, but over time, that snooze option becomes quite familiar.  

There are times in our lives when we miss that passion and tenacity that we once had.  Remember how fired-up you used to be about Jesus?  About your discipleship?  I don’t think that enthusiasm is supposed to fade.  

We should be ready to go, every day, to tenatiously pursue all that God has in store for us.  

I admire those people who can jump out of bed ready to go.  Perhaps it’s less magical and more of a life skill.  Maybe they are just better at getting a reasonable amount of sleep.  

Reclaim your enthusiasm!  Let’s work toward finding more mornings in which we are ready to go when the alarm sounds.  We will have to pass on options to snooze, and it may mean going to bed an hour earlier but it is worth it.  Pursue a reasonable amount of rest so that you can seize the potential within every day’s dawning that God gives you!

“And, again, when he came back, he found them sleeping, for they couldn’t keep their eyes open, and they didn’t know how to respond to him. Get up! Let’s go! Look, here comes Judas.”” Mark‬ ‭14:40, 42