What I learned from my roosters…
A few months ago we added chickens to our backyard. Yes, we already had one, but she is more like a member of the family… I joke that she needed pets.
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| Molly Boy |
When I am
already awake and going about my day, I don’t mind hearing the roosters
crowing. In fact, I find it
endearing. I even enjoy hearing their
little ‘crow-offs’ in the middle of the day.
However, roosters do like to crow at (or just before) the break of
dawn. And when I am sleeping, I do not
like to hear a rooster crowing. That once sweet enjoyable sound grates on my
nerves. The roosters are doing the same
thing they always do, but at that moment I do not want to hear it… I do not
want to be awakened.
The other
day I when I was listening to the roosters I came to a realization. We believers enjoy hearing a strong voice
teaching the Word of God and heeding the call.
We find the small lone voice endearing and refreshing. We even like to hear to opposing views having
a crow-off, or theological debate.
However, that is only when we are awake.
When we
are asleep, we do not want to be awaken to the Truth. We want to stay in our slumber and ignore
what is around us. We want to continue
on the path before us, listening to the things that ‘sound good and pleasing,’
rather than open our eyes and see we’ve been asleep and what we were believing
or following is not true.
I have
not been blogging long on a consistent basis.
Yet, I have had friends – and those I thought were friends – ask me to
stop writing, to stop posting. What I am saying offends them. I am writing in
love, in hopes that believers will seek the Word for themselves – to know what
is true. But the truth does offend.
Too often
we find ourselves following a person, a pastor, or a ministry. We think all
the fabulous Christians we’ve followed would never be deceived – or at least
not that easily. We’ll be told we know
the others working and heading up the ministry...would they allow anti-Bible
things into this amazing ministry? If
they are asleep, the answer is a resounding, “Yes!”
We hear just enough
truth to follow along, slipping into a peaceful slumber. We listen to what
people say about the Bible rather than searching Its depths. We put our trust
so much in others that we do not believe they could stray from the truth. We are warned of this in the Bible – so do
not be deceived! Any one of us can fall
asleep and follow the wrong person – which is anyone for we are all
fallible. We should follow Christ alone. Anyone else – no matter how well-meaning –
can lead us into a slumber, where we are blinded from the truth.
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| Big Red |
Wake up, believers!
Wake up!
“…‘I know your deeds, that you have a
name that you are alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen the things
that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed
in the sight of My God. So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it,
and repent. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you
will not know at what hour I will come to you…” (Revelation 3:1-3)
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