“In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.” -Psalm 4:8
“Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God.” -John Piper
Tag Archives: sleep
Scripture at Sunrise 9.4.2019
“I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.” -Psalm 3:5
“God gives us sleep to remind us we aren’t Him.” – Charles Spurgeon
Scripture at Sunrise 7.2.2019
“So He giveth his beloved sleep.” -Psalm 127:2
Ours is not a life of anxious care but of happy faith. Our heavenly Father will supply the wants of His own children, and He knoweth what we have need of before we ask Him. We may therefore go to our beds at the proper hour and not wear ourselves out by sitting up late to plot, and plan, and contrive. If we have learned to rely upon our God, we shall not lie awake with fear gnawing at our hearts; but we shall leave our care with the Lord, our meditation of Him shall be sweet, and He will give us refreshing sleep.
To be the Lord’s beloved is the highest possible honor, and he who has it may feel that ambition itself could desire no more, and therefore every selfish wish may go to sleep. What more is there even in heaven than the love of God? Rest, then, O soul, for thou hast all things. Yet we toss to and fro unless the Lord Himself gives us not only the reasons for rest but rest itself. Yea, He doth this. Jesus Himself is our peace, our rest, our all, On His bosom we sleep in perfect security, both in life and in death.
Sprinkled afresh with pardoning blood,
I lay me down to rest
As in the embraces of my God,
Or on my Saviour’s breast.
[from Faith’s Checkbook by Charles H. Spurgeon]
Scripture at Sunrise 11.13.2018
“Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.” -Psalm 121:4
Jehovah is “the Keeper of Israel.” No form of unconsciousness ever steals over Him, neither the deeper slumber nor the slighter sleep. He never fails to watch the house and the heart of His people. This is a sufficient reason for our resting in perfect peace. Alexander said that he slept because his friend Parmenio watched; much more may we sleep because our God is our guard.
“Behold” is here set up to call our attention to the cheering truth. Israel, when he had a stone for his pillow, fell asleep; but His God was awake and came in vision to His servant. When we lie defenseless, Jehovah Himself will cover our head.
The Lord keeps His people as a rich man keeps his treasure, as a captain keeps a city with a garrison, as a sentry keeps watch over his sovereign. None can harm those who are in such keeping. Let me put my soul into His dear hands. He never forgets us, never ceases actively to care for us, never finds Himself unable to preserve us.
O my Lord, keep me, lest I wander and fall and perish. Keep me, that I may keep Thy commandments. By Thine unslumbering care prevent my sleeping like the sluggard and perishing like those who sleep the sleep of death.
[from Faith’s Checkbook by Charles H. Spurgeon]
Scripture at Sunrise 5.7.2018
SERMON AUDIO
Sunday Morning 5/6 –Romans 13:11-14
Time to Wake Up
Sunday Evening 5/6 – John 12:27-36
Christ Troubled
Wednesday Evening 5/2 – 2 Kings 20:1-21
Death Sentence
Scripture at Sunrise 12.7.2017
Scripture at Sunrise 11.20.2014
It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for He gives to His beloved sleep. -Psalm 127:2
Sleep is a parable that God is God and we are mere men. -John Piper via Desiring God’s Twitter
Scripture at Sunrise 11.19.2014
“He will not let your foot be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.” -Psalm 121:3-4
God gave us sleep to remind us we aren’t Him. -Charles H. Spurgeon
Scripture at Sunrise 3.25.2014
When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid. yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. -Proverbs 3:24
Is the reader likely to be confined for a while to the bed by sickness! Let him go upstairs without distress with this promise upon his heart “When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid.”
When we go to bed at night, let this word smooth our pillow. We cannot guard ourselves in sleep, but the Lord will keep us through the night. Those who lie down under the protection of the Lord are as secure as kings and queens in their palaces, and a great deal more so. If with our lying down there is a laying down of all cares and ambitions, we shall get refreshment out of our beds such as the anxious and covetous never find in theirs. Ill dreams shall be banished, or even if they come, we shall wipe out the impression of them, knowing that they are only dreams.
If we sleep thus we shall do well. How sweetly Peter slept when even the angel’s light did not wake him, and he needed a hard jog in the side to wake him up. And yet he was sentenced to die on the morrow. Thus have martyrs slept before their burning. “So he giveth his beloved sleep.” To have sweet sleep we must have sweet lives, sweet tempers, sweet meditations, and sweet love.
[from Faith’s Checkbook by Charles H. Spurgeon]
Scripture at Sunrise 1.30.2014
“Casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you.” -1 Peter 5:7
“At night before you rest, empty the day’s gathered troubles and fall into a happy sleep.” -Charles H. Spurgeon via CJ Mahaney’s Twitter
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