Pastor David Watson opens with a relatable picture: the feeling of pulling into a parking lot and realizing you don't remember a single moment of the drive. You were on autopilot. From there, he draws a straight line to the way many of us are living our lives — wake up, commute, work, Netflix, repeat. Life, he warns, quickly becomes repetitive. And the danger isn't just boredom. It's drift.

That drift is exactly what Paul was fighting in Acts chapter 25. After two years in prison, Paul finds himself standing before yet another politician, answering the same accusations from the same people. Same trial, different judge. And yet Paul refuses to let the monotony destroy him. He stays active, writing letters and discipling soldiers. He gets creative, refusing to go back to Jerusalem for another dead-end trial and instead appealing to Caesar. And he leverages everything — including his Roman citizenship — to keep moving forward. His waiting never became wasting.

Pastor David lands the sermon with a challenge rooted in C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters: the enemy's strategy isn't always spectacular rebellion. Sometimes it's just drift — making our devotion feel like duty until faith becomes mechanical and life becomes a mindless scroll on repeat. The invitation from Jesus, echoing His words to the church in Revelation chapter 3, is simply this: wake up. Because regular doesn't have to be routine, and God still wants to do something extraordinary through your ordinary life.

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