Wake up.

Dear Americans who call yourselves Christians,
Wake up. You're missing what God is calling you to do. You're not listening to His voice calling out to you. Wake up from your slumber and be who God is calling you to be.

As I look around to a culture who has been deprived of the joys of knowing Christ, my heart breaks. I am frustrated. I am upset. I have more of an urgency to share His love with them because you have failed to do so. How could we, as Christ followers, let this happen? How could we get so comfortable in our own worlds and forget those who are in need. Not only do they need food, clothing, medical care, and proper housing, but they need to know the love of Christ. We have failed to do what we have been called to do. God calls us to share His love with the least of these. We need to share His love with those who have yet to hear of it.

While you've been sleeping, people have died having not known the love of Christ. People have been living hopelessly because they have never been shown the hope we have in Christ.

While we've been so focused on getting what's in style, while we're wasting our money on things that aren't even necessary, we've deprived a needy people that literally don't have the basic necessities of life. While we've been calling ourselves followers of Christ, we've lost what it truly means to follow Him. It's time to wake up. It's time to stop being so selfish and become selfless. It's time for us to focus on God and what He's calling us to do instead of focusing on how to to make ourselves more comfortable. It's time go get out of our own bubbles and start going places we've never gone before.

Christianity, as the US would define it, is way far from how God defines it. It's time for us to not only hear what God's calling us to do, but to actually follow through with it. God doesn't call us to be comfortable and serve Him a little bit. He calls us to literally give EVERYTHING we have to Him and serve Him wholeheartedly. Let me warn you, it's going to be hard. If we ask God to really use you, He will take you out of your comfort zone.  He willl lead you in places you've never gone before. He will make this ride very interesting. But let me tell you. There is no greater joy than being exactly where God has called you to be. Only then will you actually be able to hear His voice clearly. Onlly then will you be able to feel peace about where you are.

Wake up and be who you are called to be. Come out of your slumber and do all that He's calling you to. If you don't, you will go down as the poeple who never knew Him. You will be remembered as the people who were hypocrites and never followed their Jesus. Wake up and care about the things God cares about. Wake up and get to know the Jesus who knit you together. Wake up and get to know the God that BREATHES stars! Wake up and share His love to those who need it the most. Wake up from your sleep and live the life you're called to live. Live radically, love sincerely, serve passionately, give wholeheartedly, and be the voice this world desperately needs to hear.