Live Consciously

Alarm clocks -- never cared for them, but the older-me really dislikes them!  I recall one of the first digital clocks Mr. Bill and I owned.  We adjusted fairly well to the luminous glow of the numbers, but we neither adjusted to nor long tolerated the sound of that alarm.  The first [and last] time it went off scared us half outta our wits!

 

God consciously created each person to live consciously.  We deliberately buy, then set alarm clocks to wake us at a certain time; we may not like it when the alarm sounds, but the clock is only doing what we planned-and-expected it to do!  There is really only one conscious task we have as Christians – that is to

“be holy.”  It’s not one of many goals, as if on a bucket-list of things to accomplish in a lifetime.  Oh, no!  It is to be the driving force of every breath of every moment of life.  Nancy Leigh DeMoss describes it as our "created purpose."  This state in which we live is temporal; John writes, "Beloved, we are God's children

now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who thus hopes in Him purifies himself as He is pure." (1 John 3:2-3).  Deliberate living is conscious hard work especially when the flesh (our sinful part) wants to just

joy-ride through each day.  Oh, how we've come to love those snooze buttons that put off what must be!  My Christian friend, there is no time for snoozin' in holy living – be ever aware of Satan then follow after God with all you got.  Live consciously!