The Wake Up Call

Kelly Osbourne on Piers Morgan Tonight last week, speaking about her drug problem and how she overcame it … “I wanted to die. I couldn’t believe that I actually thought, if I take a bit more, I would die. I thought I can’t believe I’ve come to this person … this is who I am and this is what I’ve sat in my bedroom praying for. It’s just … a huge wake up call and … I had one of two options, die or sort myself out.”

I was struck by the concept of not only the wake up call, but also the need to figure things out or die. Seems to me like we are doing that every day, in all of our actions … in one physical sense, by the way we treat our bodies. But in a much larger sense in the way we accept Jesus or not.

We die to ourselves if we fail to see the purpose of our life through a relationship with God and His son. This is everything worth “sorting out” … this is the core of life for us as believers. As we look at ourselves, we don’t want to see that what we’ve become as a person is something of no value, something that is almost grotesque. We have too much value to become that person, the person Kelly almost didn’t recognize.

I pray we can look at our lives, and the lives of those we love, and assure that we overcome anything that makes us less than we deserve to be. It’s not just drugs or alcohol or other addictions that take us off track … it is a disinterest in “sorting things out” and coming to the truth, the truth that is Jesus and our true purpose.