Wake Up by M. Wood

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 6, 1871

Wake Up.

By M. Wood

“And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep.” Rom. 13:11. Dear reader, can your precious soul comprehend the meaning of the words of the apostle Paul when he entreats us in the name of God to awake, saying that the night is far spent, and the day is near at hand? Is it not time that we should take heed to Paul’s warning? that we should wake up to the perilous times? that we should have our loins girded about with the righteousness of God, that we may be able to stand in the evil day? When clothed with righteousness, we shall be able to withstand the fiery darts of the enemy, who is ever ready and ever anxious to draw us from the duty which we owe to God and to man. But we must awake, be ever watchful, ever prayerful, always abounding in the works of the Lord, having more faith in the promises of God, and keeping his holy law; looking unto Jesus as the author and finisher of our faith.

Dear reader, do you want eternal life? Oh, yes! So do I. Then let us wake out of this dull stupor, and commence anew to serve the true and living God. Put away ungodliness, for soon Jesus will cease to plead our cause with God; we shall be left without a high priest in the heavenly sanctuary, and he that is filthy will then remain filthy. Let us then wake up, and let us wash our robes in the blood of the Lamb. Shall we be found among Christ’s jewels? Are we keeping God’s commandments acceptably to him? Will God accept of any excuses in the day of Judgment?

Still we are not awake to the dangers which threaten us on every hand. It will be an awful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. It is possible for us to escape his indignation and wrath. Let us be diligent. Watch and pray. Stand fast in the faith. Exhort one another, and the more as ye see the day approaching. It may be that we shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger. M. WOOD.