Daily Devotional
Will You Wake Me Up If I Die?
Text: Proverbs 25:19
“Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.” (KJV)
Message
Our today verse brings to the front burner the fact that friends can become unfaithful, unreliable, desertful, a betrayer, etc.
The realisation of a friend being unfaithful is both hurtful and painful. It is equally demoralising and dreadful. It is the trap of death, and except for God, death in itself.
Put in other words, we can not prevent our friends from turning an enemy and thereby dying before us time and time again. Perhaps Jesus has this in mind when He said we should forgive our friends ‘seventy times seven times’ signifying, always to forgive.
Beloved, tried as I may, I’m going to die before you a lot, again and again. That’s my human nature at work in the ‘Animal called Man’!
With this understanding, will you say “yes” as a reply to my question, that, “Will you wake me up if I die?”
In other words, will you accept my cries and even cry with me for hours, continued in the midnight to early morning, because we had to cover up the beast in me?
Will you agree with the help of God to pick me up with my vomit when my proper place becomes the gutter?
A friend is made for the day of adversity. That I know, but will you pay the bill and settle my creditors without telling another person how you helped me out of shame and disgrace?
When you do the wrong, will you not turn me your slave to remain loyal even against my wish to be faithful?
When I cross my boundary known and unknown, will you not tell others how you were my source of sustainability when I had no job and food and was homeless, helpless, and down trodden?
Will you remain a friend when I faithfully call a spade a spade inspite of all you have done for me?
Will you remain faithful to a friend when he is proven unfaithful to you , or will it be teeth for that?
Will you turn the other of your cheeks when you are still in pain that I struck the other?
Will you be my friend under the Mosaic principle of “an eye for an eye,” or you will say, let Brotherly love continue?
Will you still love that friend when he or she infringes on your right or space?
Above all, will you forgive and forget and allow we together to start rebuilding our broken fence again, even as God began to heal us together until and after I am able to wake up from the dead?
Take marriage, for example. Marriage is a very sweet relationship when you are married to your friend or the right person meant for you. But there is a question couples need to ask themselves. That is, “Honey, can you wake me up if I die?”
You may meet me very successfully in Business, but a day may come and the business is dead, can you wake me up?
I may be on fire as a sister now, but after having three children with so many responsibilities, l may be growing cold spiritually. Can you wake me up?
It may not be as a result of infidelity. It may be an unguarded hour. It may be family matters. Whichever it is that left me dead, can you wake me up?
Think about it!!
Truth is, we are meant for each other, so let’s fight the battle together. Remember while we were yet sinner and have declared ourselves God’s enemy, He so loved us that He sent His Only Begotten Son Jesus, the sinless, to die for you and me, the sinners!
What an agape love!
One of my child age popular songs goes like this;
Let brotherly love continue,
Let it be/3×.
For God is love, And he want us to love each other,
Let brotherly love continue,
Let it be/3x.
This song commends that as the Lord helps us, and we can arise together again. Our love for one another must never die! Her sun must not go down or be extinguished. Brush aside the ashes and let the light glow again, never to die.
Will or can you wake me up if I die?
Think about it and do the needful.
God bless you.