God is your alarm clock
God is like your alarm clock, He will wake you up when it is time!
This morning God spoke to me about how He is my alarm clock and I wanted to share with you all! I remember rolling over and seeing the red clock numbers blinking and saying it was 5:45 in the morning. I thought “perfect, I don’t need to get up yet” so I began to roll back over and get comfy in bed again. But I also knew in the back of my head that I was going to need to get up soon because it was my day to feed the horses. So, I rolled back over and turned on my alarm to wake me up at 6:30. I don’t know if anyone else is like me, but I feel like when I don’t have my alarm on, I am more nervous about my wake-up time and I tend to not be able to go back to sleep as well. So, with me setting my alarm I felt like it gives me permission to go back to sleep fully, since I know it will wake me up at the according time.
Well, it felt like I had literally just closed my eyes and wandered off into sleep and my alarm went off and I guess it was already time to wake back up. So, I find myself rolling over yet again to turn it off while saying “wow, already?” It was in that moment that I felt like the Holy Spirit hit me with how this is similar to what God is doing in my life right now. Let’s just say there are some things that I have found myself worrying over and trying to control and plan for, but with little to no direction from God in, which can feel so frustrating. But He has been so gracious in reminding me that I am exactly where I am supposed to be and that I can surrender it all to Him.
I felt like this is how the Holy Spirit showed me God is like my alarm clock. Because now that I have surrendered these things to God and have embraced the right here, right now it’s kind of like this morning when I turned my alarm clock on. By me surrendering it to God it was like I turned on my alarm clock which meant I could roll back over and go to sleep, so to speak; because I knew the alarm clock would wake me up when I needed to. Just like me letting it go and trusting God by knowing that right now I can just relax and be present and trust that God will wake me up when He needs me.
Rather than me sitting here worrying about the timeline of this or that and why isn’t that coming to pass yet or when do I get to do this? I can sit back and enjoy where I am right now because I know He has it all under control and just like I trust my alarm clock to wake me up at the perfect timing, I can trust God to wake me up at His perfect timing. He has the perfect timing for everything anyways, so why not trust Him with the timing of when to wake you up to that revelation that you’re seeking?
But the Holy Spirit wasn’t done yet, because I felt like He was showing me the timing of it all as well. Like I said after I set my alarm and went back to bed it felt like barely any time had passed before it was waking me up. I feel like the Holy Spirit is saying that’s the same way that God will wake us up suddenly. Because after we have wholeheartedly surrendered it to Him and have begun to relax back down, then He will suddenly wake us up and it will be time and there will be no more worrying.
So, I wanted to just come on here and encourage you guys that we can trust God enough to surrender whatever “it” is and we can think of Him like our alarm clock, and trust that He will wake us up at the perfect timing which means until then, we can relax and enjoy where we are at right here and right now!
Much love to you all!
Kaley