I have a couple issues with the word "woke." And that's not including the incorrect grammar.
We are living in a time where to be "woke" is the most important thing. To be "woke" is supposedly a cure-all for what ails our nations. To be "woke" is supposedly a magical fix for the terrible way people can treat and have treated each other.
Being "woke" is supposed to be a new way of opening our eyes to the injustices around us.
But being "woke" won't open our eyes. Like many things going on right now, being "woke" is just another form of the enemy's distraction, meant to keep us from an awakening in Christ.
Friends, what we need more than being "woke" is an awakening. We need Christ to open our eyes, to remove the distractions from our vision so we can see the Truth.
Being woke won't show you the Truth. It will show you the world's version of the truth, in a distraction that the enemy has created. But, friends, it has been a long time since the world started shutting its eyes to the Truth. Even Christians prefer to look away because the Truth can be painful. Sometimes it isn't what we want to hear.
But being awakened by Christ is the only hope. We need a spiritual awakening more than anything else. Only God can change people's hearts. Only God can bring about justice.
And friends, with the way things are going right now, we should all be on our knees praying for God to give us a spiritual awakening, that we are awakened to see the sin around us and in us. We should be praying that He tempers his wrath with mercy before it is too late.
We need to focus on God and not our circumstances. We need to focus on His awakening, rather than the world's idea of being "woke."
There was a slogan about a decade ago at a Christian concert I went to that said "Awake. Arise. Advance."
Now is the time. Awake, people of God. Stop sleeping! Awake. Don't look to the world's truth. Look to God's Truth. Don't look around at the state of things. Keep your eyes on God. Look up! Awake o sleepers, awake!
And I said, 'Who are You, Lord?' And the Lord said, 'I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. But get up and stand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to appoint you a minister and a witness not only to the things which you have seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you; rescuing you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.' - Acts 26:15-18
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed. The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts. - Romans 1:11-14
("Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame,") - Revelation 16:15
