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“The Blue Hour”

On November 6, 2022 by Dteb With 0 Comments - down to earth believer

“Rom. 13:11 ¶ Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

Rom. 13:12 The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Rom. 13:13 Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Rom. 13:14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.” (Romans 13:11-14, English Standard Version)

I woke up well before the dawn this morning, as I generally do. It is unseasonably warm and nice here in Cincinnati, so I decided to walk and run (well, jog) early. With the time change, I wasn’t sure if I had time for that before a Zoom meeting with some friends and church. So, I did what we all do these days: I searched online.

Sometimes, online searches give you more than you had bargained for, and once in a while, that “more” is really good. So it was in this case. I learned more than what time the sun came up. I learned what the twenty or thirty minutes before sunrise and after sunset are called: “the blue hour.” You probably already knew that, but I did not. Apparently, it is called “the blue hour” because, on a clear day, the sky is dark blue at those times.

One of the things that I do is to see connections where others do not. Probably, some of my “connections” are pretty disjointed or even manufactured. However, I like them, and will continue to see (or make) such connections. My mind went to Romans 13:11-14. Paul is writing to Christ-followers in Rome and says that they need to wake up. What! How can you be following Christ and yet be asleep?

That is the question, isn’t it? But God knows that some of us try. Or perhaps sleep walking is our default position? Paul mentions several ways of being asleep: carousing and drunkenness, sexual immorality, dissension, and jealousy. And just in case, these specific varieties of somnambulism don’t hit the believers with a bucket of cold water, Paul adds “thinking about how to gratify fleshly desires.” Who of us doesn’t want what we want when we want it?

Time to wake up, dear friend. It is the blue hour!

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