Prodigal Son Transformation With Kyle IdlemanSample

“AWAKENING - Coming To Your Senses”

Often we miss the alarms sounding in our lives because we’re not sensitive to them. The soft harp alarm won’t do the job—it’s going to take the blaring alarm to wake us up. So instead of responding to the alarm early, we keep hitting snooze. The alarm grows louder and louder until eventually it is so unpleasant we can’t ignore it any longer. So we wake up, rub our eyes, look around to find the prodigal sons pigs surrounding us, and wonder how it came to this.

Here’s my question for you: Are there alarms sounding in your life right now?

In Scripture there are a number of examples of how God sounds the alarm. Often times the alarm sounds early on to wake us up before things have fallen apart. Sometimes people think they have to hit rock bottom before they come to their senses, but what if God is trying to wake you up right now to save you from heartbreak in the Distant Country later?

2 Chronicles 36:15 speaks of how God sounds the alarm to warn his people. The expression “rising up early” doesn’t mean God got out of bed early. Rather it is best understood as “taking action early.” In this context, it means He sounded the alarm as quickly as the problems were perceived.

And then we read why He warned: “… because he had compassion on his people…” These alarms are for our own good, because God loves us.

* Are there any alarms you’ve been ignoring, choosing to snooze rather than awaken? Can you think of any time when God gave you early alarms in order to save you from later heart-break/sin?