Alertness is being aware of what is taking place around me so that I can have the right response to it.
It involves all our 5 senses – sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.
Being ALERT to what is going on around you is the one step you can take to being transformed into what God wants you to be. It does not mean eavesdropping, gossiping, or spying on people. Rather use your senses to serve and protect others. But many people have the attitude “If it doesn’t involve me why should I worry about it, that is someone else’s problem.” Yes, you can think and act that way, but as Christians, we are called to be different.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Romans 12:2
Being ALERT is the one step you can take to being transformed into what God wants you to be.
As you notice things do you react? And do you respond CORRECTLY?
** Remember **
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows. Luke 12:7
God cares and loves you; He even knows the number of hairs on your head. You are valuable to Him! If God loves us so much as to count the hairs on our head, is it unreasonable to ask that we care for others as well?
1 Peter 5:8 – Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
The devil wants us to be absorbed with our own things, be distracted from other’s needs, dismiss the warnings of danger, and be unresponsive to put it simply to be selfish. It is not always easy or convenient to go the extra step to take care of a problem, but I can personally say that the blessing you will receive will outweigh the time or energy used.
How can you start?
You see lights left on in an empty room. – To help save electricity costs you should turn them off.
You taste something and it has a strange texture or smells funny. – Tell someone so that someone doesn’t get sick.
Someone is sitting in a corner crying. – Go over and offer a tissue and ask if they are okay.
There is a dripping faucet in the bathroom. – Try to turn it off and tell someone to prevent future water damage.
How to remain alert?