HOW TO SLEEP
Psalms 3:1-8
I will both lie down in peace, and sleep; for You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety. Psalm 4:8
Bringing a product to market represents a huge financial investment. Based on the number of sleep aid medicines and supplements on the market, it would appear that a lot of people aren’t getting enough sleep! Those products wouldn’t exist if the world was sleeping soundly at night.
The Psalmist David pointed out something we know all too well: There is a difference between going to bed and going to sleep. Everybody goes to bed at night, but not everyone goes to sleep. But David did both: “I will both lie down in peace, and sleep.” Why was he able to sleep in peace? Because he trusted in God: “You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.” He wrote those words during a period of unnamed trouble in his life something everyone can identify with. But instead of being angry, he silenced his heart and went to sleep in peace (Psalm 4:4, 8).
Do you go to bed, or do you both go to bed and go to sleep in peace? Search your heart and commit your concerns to God and rest in Him. We sleep in peace in the arms of God when we yield ourselves up to His providence. The same David wrote in Psalm 127:2 that “it is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep”. Can you see? Sleep is a gift from the Lord. He gives it to his beloved. If you do his will, you are among the beloved. But if you are not sleeping, it means you have on your own be eating the bread of sorrows. That is you carry your burden by yourself. Stop doing that. Cast all your cares upon him. Then, he will give you sleep.
MEDITATION: Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Ps. 121:4.
