"Can You Smell the Coffee?" No, I awake unto Righteousness!

A legacy of "waking up" is inherent in American political culture, no question about it.

The real problem becomes making sense of the current reality which does not fit in with the ideal fantasy under which many have lived.

Philosophers attack the nature of reality itself, or at least our ability to grasp this reality stringently enough to make something of ourselves within it.

Political forces want to change or maintain this reality.

The truth is, as Professor Kelly Candaele of Cal State Chico refers to, the grace of God through the death of Jesus Christ leads us into all truth.

This invitation to the gospel, however, is not the prized possession of a limited number of cult followers. There is nothing paranoid about the fundamental truths which affect every human being on this earth:

1. We are all going to die.

2. We have a fear of death.

3. This fear of death carries with it an unending sense of judgment and condemnation, in which human being strives to get it right in their lives, or get in on to have as much fun before the die.

4. We all have knowledge of a Creator who exacts accountability from us.

5. The way to satisfy His righteous demands, and end condemnation in our lives, is through the Finished Work of Jesus Christ at the Cross.

This is not faraway secret tucked away for only the initiated to find following duress and danger.

Salvation is as close to a person as his heart and mouth!:

"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

"For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." (Romans 10: 9-10)

Through this belief and confession, the believer is not just woken up from the conniving plottings of pols and politicians, but is raised up in Christ to live forever, receiving His everlasting life here, now, and for eternity!

Thus Paul the Apostle exhorts his readers:

"Awake to righteousness!"(1 Corinthians 15:34)

For in Christ, all believers have this promise for themselves accorded to them:

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2 Corinthians 5:21)