I fell out of my bed this morning at around 3:30 and smashed my face pretty good in the carpet. My nose may be broken and I may have a concussion. Needless to say, I didn’t have too much trouble waking up after that. So with these things still very fresh in my mind I thought it would be very appropriate to write about wake up calls.
Is it weird that the first thing I thought of when I hit my face is how good of a story this would make? I actually wasn’t even angry or anything. All I could think about is, I hope it looks really gruesome or even “this is exciting”. I feel that this can somehow apply to real life. It takes wake up calls that make us feel alive again, without them we can find ourselves coasting along. I was coasting pretty steady, but now that I have just smashed my face I realize that I wasn’t truly living before. We can’t just coast through life! The funny thing is that I prayed to God yesterday along with my brother, Nathan Ghantous, to give me suffering so that I could prove I stand by him even when times are hard and so that I can share in Christ’s suffering. Im not sure what this literal rude awakening is going to lead to but I somehow feel like there is a reason it did. Strange I know, maybe I just hit my head too hard and can’t think straight.
Whatever the case, the application is real. Wake up calls get us up on our feet. I convince myself I need 8 hours of sleep to go through my day, this is clearly proven wrong seeing as I am more awake than I have been in awhile and I have only had three. The same goes for wake up calls in life. We tend to take control for ourselves and build up padded walls to keep us comfortable but honestly, life wasn’t meant to be comfortable. As Americans, we suck on pacifiers and ask for people to change our diapers for us thinking that the more things go our way, the better our life is. This just isn’t true though, we have to take risks both physically and relationally. We have to repeatedly step out of our comfort zone. Living life isn’t being content with a C but going for A because you can. Living life is serving someone else because you care, sacrificing for one you love, facing your biggest fears, setting big goals, laughing when the gun is in your face, crying when something is sad, shouting when something excites you, sitting silently when the world screams, jumping higher when someone says jump high, and loving harder when someone says they don’t love you back. And the best thing is that all of these are possible in Christ. Look at his life, he was king but he made himself nothing, we were unworthy but he took our sin and punishment on himself, he was pure but he ate with sinners, he was threatened but he continued to speak, he was God yet he took time to be quiet and reenergize, he washed the feet of his followers, he embraced children, walked on water, fed thousands, and was murdered only to rise again.
With all this in mind I want to encourage the reader to live not just get by. Life is too short to get by and Christ has a plan that we would not believe if he told us. The fulfillment of that plan leads to a life so full with his blessings it is hard to imagine. Live today, don’t wait to fall out of bed and hit your head.
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