DON'T YOU WISH TO WAKE?

I was reading about Amos, a shepherdman that lived about 800 B.C., with several of my fellow congregationalists the other evening, and thought about how great and mighty the Lord God is to be able to not just judge us individually but can also judge us as an entire nation through His expansive everknowingness. And the question was brought up, "If our nation is doing something we don't like or don't agree with, can and will I, as an individual, be punished for it?" and we concluded that yes, we can if we don't do or say something to stop it. We can be judged not only for what we do; but also for what we don't do. Yes, The Lord God knows what's in our hearts and how we feel and what we think and what we are capable of; but we must do more than just think and feel to live in this world. We must do His work to stop what we don't agree with whether it be writing a letter to a Congressman or even the President, voting, recycling, walking for Breast Cancer Research or the like, fundraising for children's education, emailing friends and neighbors, staying in touch, supporting each other when we're sick or poor through floods, droughts, tsunamis, cyclones, terrorist bombings, Middle East wars, ethnic cleansing campaigns like Darfur that are unbelievably in existence today even after World War II and even though they may be on the entire other side of the world, what affects them ultimately affects us all because we are all one; otherwise, we can suffer dire consequences if we become acquiescent and say nothing. So you see, my friends, there is no time to sleep. Sleep no longer is an option if this is the case. Don't you wish to wake?