How Did We Get Here - Wake Low

don't close your eyes

I have days where my alarm goes off, and all I want to do is roll over and go back to sleep, sleep until 2021 or Jesus comes back. Where I just want to close my eyes to everything. Sleep feels like the right way to avoid the tension, avoid the pain. Avoid sickness, confusion, chaos, politics.

Don’t close your eyes to a tomb that’s broken wide

But here's the thing. If I do that. If I roll over and go back to sleep (figuratively or literally), in doing that, I'm also avoiding the tomb that has been broken wide. The gift that God has given.

Every moment you take is a void in a grave

Oh, it’s time to wake

Friends, it's time to wake up. It's time to put aside our differences, and to unite around the truth of an empty tomb.

So how did I get here

In a vision of embrace

I thought that I forgot, but I know this place

How did we get here? Remember that we know the place of Jesus. That the truth is Jesus. That He is the one that we cling to - that He is the one we invite people into relationship with. That it is HIM and HIM alone that brings the embrace that we need. 

And we need to wake up and share that truth with the world. 

Wherever you are - home with family, out in an essential job, serving people in a restaurant, teaching people over video call. Wherever you find yourself. That is your mission field. Wake up the the truth of an empty tomb, broken wide. Love those around you so well that they can't help but see Jesus in you. Engage in the conflict and the messiness that is building trust and raising yourself to commitment.

And while you're at it - check out this awesome new band @wakelowmusic streaming now with their first two songs wherever you get your music (and yes - that definitely means another Wake Low blog is coming)! These "youngsters" have a whole lot of wisdom and talent. I'm excited to see where their musical journey takes them!

How did we get here

It’s easy to forget

On the field that I knew lies cheap cement

How did we get here

We’re running out of time

The river was rushing, now it’s bone dry

Don’t close your eyes to a tomb that’s broken wide

Every moment you take is a void in a grave

Oh, it’s time to wake

I took the long way to George Town

There cast a winter glow

Dressed in a ballgown of paper white snow

Now the sun is an ember

Fiery colors collide

But every cinder I left behind

Don’t close your eyes to a tomb that’s broken wide

Every moment you take is a void in a grave

Oh, it’s time to wake

Edges blurred, it’s a muted word, I’m so close to seeing

Truth lies low behind the veil, this hazy view is fleeting

Is everything on Stephens’s Street an arrow to the sun

Or does this age sink to the ground, with nothing new begun

So how did I get here

In a vision of embrace

I thought that I forgot, but I know this place

Don’t close your eyes to a tomb that’s broken wide

Every moment you take is a void in a grave

Oh, it’s time to wake