So my quiet times have been flooded with God opening my heart and just flowing words through me lately. Can we say I have been stuck driving in a car by myself too much? Yes! But, once again, I was driving by myself to Greensboro this time and God had just put this Ephesians 5:14 on my heart. It was one of those moments, that you felt like me and God were just chit chatting side by side and for all my excuses and thoughts all He had to say was this one phrase, “Awake, O sleeper”! So, I spent the whole ride just rattling this around in my brain and when I got to Greensboro the following words just poured onto some paper. It is starting to look like a poetry corner on here, but I know there are words that just need to be heard and I feel like these are pretty powerful and to meditate on this verse awakens something much powerful then you can imagine deep within us…
Clouds flirt with the skyline
And from somewhere deep inside my chest a sense of infinite distance swells..
A cool breeze penetrates my lungs
Pulling me up onto my feet…
A voice whispers into my ear,
“Awake, O sleeper”!
A smile catches the furthest corner of my cheek and I turn..
My feet carry me far away from the petrified heart I left hovering over my thoughts and…
Heavier steps take me unknowingly deeper into a destiny
that my brightest dream would be extinguished in comparison to the lighthouse that illuminates the curiosity of my soul..
And still A voice whispers,
“Awake, O sleeper”!
I cry out for a change
To see a difference..
Punctuated by this layer of life colliding with a heavenly realm
In which GOOD triumphs evil
And an outstretched hand remains resting upon your shoulder nudging you to take a stand
Join the story that is anchored into your very being..
And still shackles keep me restrained to this tattered clothing that I wear so well..
And from the wind a beckoning whisper is heard,
“Awake, O sleeper”!
Arising to fight!
I hide from the opportunities that catch my gaze..
I take on battles I am sure to win..
Faltering away from the courage that my tongue tries to steer me,
Mostly in the consciences’ of others..
But from inside swells a TRUTH, a VOICE, an IDENTITY
That strengthens these brittle bones
And breathes life into my lungs..
A voice resonates,
“Awake, O sleeper”!
I am marked by a NAME that weighs relentlessly on my heart..
I fall to my knees and outstretch my hands to be filled with an unnatural power..
To be who I am told I AM.
Not who I once was or who I will fail to be,
But the I AM that breaks free from this skeletal cage
And radiates a light in my blind eyes
Reassuring me that with me, He is well pleased!
And I am embraced by a VOICE that says,
“Awake, O sleeper!
Rise from the dead,
And Christ will shine on you”!
Hope you all are finding the blessings in the day..
Thomas
