HOW TO SLEEP WHEN FEARS SURROUND US (BC&D-48; Lesson 19-2)

Sleep is a gift from God to help prepare us to start over again tomorrow—refreshed and renewed.

It is also a picture of how much we need God and, even more, how we receive His salvation. Sleep should decimate our pride in our own power or might and humble us to think about how weak and needy we are.

At the end of one of the most grievous days of his life, David rested in the Lord: “I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the LORD sustained me” (Psalm 3:5).
We need to think deeply about why God designed sleep.

Sleep is not an accident; God is the designer and promoter of sleep. As believers who look at life through God's Word, we need to see sleep as having the very signature of God written across it. When God designs something, it is extraordinary and has specific purposes He wants us to know about. One of the most precise reasons for sleep is to remind us of this truth:
God is God and we are not.
We are helpless, limited, and dependent.

David: How to Sleep When Fear Surrounds You

The Bible provides an incredible lesson on fear, our weaknesses, and a daily way to reinforce our trust in God. Psalm 3 packages those incredible lessons.

As we open to Psalm 3, we can note some details that set this Psalm apart as an extraordinary passage that we learn is:

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[Luckyduck]

I remember the story of the woman in the b-shelter during the big one. She spread out a blanket to go to sleep and someone said “How can you sleep with all this going on?” She said “God is awake. I don’t see any reason both of us should be awake “. I always think of that when I get antsy about life.

[steveklick]

What does Jesus say about we not God but are gods? He told us twice which he says! This is a statement for you and not a question.