Asleep

Apparently while preaching one day John Wesley was alarmed to discover several members of his congregation had fallen asleep. 'Fire! Fire!' Wesley suddenly cried whereupon the guilty parishioners jumped with alarm. 'Where?' They demanded glancing around. 'In Hell' Wesley replied, 'For those who sleep under the preaching of God's Word.' -John Wesley
When I saw this I could not help but laugh. I could see the people jumping out of their seats looking around in panic. Then I started thinking of the reality of the world and how so many are walking around this world asleep. When they jump up, it wont be in a church but the gates of hell. Their eternity will be set in stone and they will ask, why did someone not wake me?Why do we walk around our friends, family, and co-workers while they sleep in their sins? Do we look at them and say, I wont disturb them, they look like their are happy just the way they are.If we love them, we will wake them by all means. The living waters of Christ can wake the sleepiest of sinners but you must share Him first. Go, wake somebody up today.

Tempted

We cannot avoid being tempted--but we ought to avoid yielding to temptation. Luther used to say, "We cannot keep the birds from flying over our heads--but we can prevent them from building their nests in our hair!"
Temptation is everywhere we turn these days. We turn on the TV and see every sin known to man show up. But to we turn the channel or do we keep looking and find excuses not to turn it? It is not the temptation that is bad but what we do with it when it shows up in our lives. All sin starts out as a small temptation somewhere. A innocent smile at a coworker, eating dinner with friends of the opposite sex, taking small things from work or other places because they wont miss it, watching a few porn movies for fun, all can lead to a life of sin. Look at everything in your life right now. Make sure, before it's to late, that you are not getting into something that may destroy your life, and the life of others. If you are already their, go to God and repent and ask him to get you out of that temptation because He is the only one who can.