High Time to Awake!

Sat Jul 31 10:48:47 PDT 2004

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  Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for July 28
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 High Time to Awake!

 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: 
 for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far
 spent, 
 the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let

 us put on the armour of light. Rom. 13:11, 12. 

 The great controversy is nearing its end. Every report of calamity by sea or

 land is a testimony to the fact that the end of all things is at hand. Wars 
 and rumors of wars declare it. Is there a Christian whose pulse does not beat

 with quickened action as he anticipates the great events opening before us? 
 The Lord is coming. We hear the footsteps of an approaching God. 

 This knowledge of the nearness of Christ's coming should not be allowed to 
 lose its force, and we become careless and inattentive, and fall into
 slumber--
 into an insensibility and indifference to realities. In slumber we are in an

 unreal world, and not sensible of the things which are taking place around 
 us. . . . 

 There are those who have the blazing light of truth shining all around them,

 and yet are insensible to it. They are enchanted by the enemy, held under a 
 spell by his bewitching power. They are not preparing for that great day
 which 
 is soon to come to our world. They seem utterly insensible to religious
 truth. 

 Are there not some youth who are awake? Those who see that the night cometh,

 and also the morning, should work with untiring energy to arouse their 
 sleeping associates. Can they not feel their peril, pray for them, and show 
 them by their own life and character that they believe themselves that Christ

 is soon to come? . . . The rapidly diminishing space of time between us and 
 eternity should more deeply impress us. Every day that passes makes one less

 left us to complete our work of perfecting character. . . . 

 As long as there are many asleep, many sporting away the precious hours in 
 careless indifference, as it were, upon the very brink of the eternal world,

 those who do believe must be sober, must be awake, must be earnest and 
 diligent, and watch unto prayer. . . . 

 Have you, dear youth, your lamps trimmed and burning?

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