Why Did I Wake Up Today?

     There are moments in our lives which are truly defining. Moments when reflected upon can be pinpointed as being the moment you discovered your talent, your passion, even at times the very reason you are alive. Take a Professional basketball player; you can only imagine the first time he held a basketball, the first time he made a goal. For him that was the moment he found his talent. A Doctor who as a child lost his Father too a sickness. Then dedicated his life too helping others get well, for him that was the moment he found his passion. A Chaplin seeing a child being arrested for the first time, and feeling compassion. For her that was the moment she discovered the reason she is alive. Such moments are rare, moments we see our purpose in a clear untainted form.
     We see others who have found their calling, and live it out too the fullest. No doubt, no questions, just pure determination, and the knowledge that they are right were God wants them. However, for most of us we keep waiting for such a moment to happen in our lives. The moment that will tell us what to do, let us know why were here, and what path too choose. We think, well when I finish High School I will find out my passion, when I finish College, then I will know my calling, when I find the perfect mate, when I have my kids, when we move into that bigger home, when I get that job then can I start my life. When thinking on the future one has too always be conscious of time. How much is left? We hear everyday that the Lords return is soon. How soon? 5 years, 10, because what is 10 years in the span of eternity? A blink? However what if it’s not 10 years, or even 5? What if tomorrow and we are still waiting to find our purpose? This thought got me thinking. We know by reading in God’s words that everything happens for a reason. There is a will for everyone’s life. A purpose, a job for you too do, but God’s will never changes. His time to send his son to get his bride has always been the same. So, with the knowledge that God has a purpose for each and everyone of his children, and that the coming of the Lord is near. Did we miss our purpose? What if God will for our lives wasn’t too wait until after High School and then really start to get serious and start seeking his will for our lives. What if we were never meant too grow old? What if there never was a purpose for us beyond that age of 20? What if the sole reason we have been put on this earth was just to sit by that one student in English? That child who didn’t have a family to go home too. The teenager just looking for answers, answers that we knew, but we didn’t give them a second look because hey, I’m just a kid. God plan for my life hasn’t even started. When in reality….it was ending.
     With these thoughts that God has laid upon my heart I will ask you the very question he asked me. Did you fail him? Are there blood stains on your hands because you were waiting for something else? Waiting for an angel too appear in your room and give you divine orders from the heaven? Waiting for hand writing on the wall. However you have answered this question it should be an eye opener. We no longer have 10 years probably no longer have 5, we may not even have 1.
     If you are like me and after thinking about all the days you wasted “waiting” for your life to start, you dropped too your knees and asked the Lord too forgive you. All the mornings he allowed you too see another sunrise which you took for granted, thinking there would be a million more. I challenge you to remember this. Each morning when you wake up remember that God is God. That there are no accidents, and if he gives you breath he has given you breath for a reason. If he didn’t take you in a car wreck on the way home from work that night, if he didn’t take you home in your sleep. That is because he is not finished. So every morning when you are blessed to roll over and see the sunlight out the window, ask this question. “Why did I wake up today?” Know that there is a will and a purpose for this day and this day alone. Forget your past mistakes. Stop waiting. Stop giving God the future that you might not have to give, and start giving God your present…because that is all we have, today, right now, this very moment. Nothing else is promised.