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For so He gives His beloved sleep. Psalms 127:2 NKJV
Doesn’t it feel wonderful when you are exhausted and lie down to sleep?
At long last, you come to your bed, knowing that your problems are on hold for the night’s rest.
Sleep is a gift from God.
Psalm 127 tells us this.
He gives sleep to His beloved child.
We are undeserving of His gifts, yet He gives them to us. Pure grace.
Today
It had been a long, busy day. The bed was looking better and better.
There was, however, a friend phoning me needing a listening ear, and several other problems about our little apartment to also solve before I could call the day over.
When, at very long last, I turned down the warm knit blanket and crept beneath it, I thought I had never felt so tired.
My husband had turned in before that last phone call. Beyond the curve of his back, I lay listening to him breathe.
Darkness covered us. I could have reached out to touch him if I needed. My fingertips were only a fraction of an inch away from his warmth. He slept, and yet his strength still comforted my soul and protected my heart. The Lord had given this godly man to me.
Daily we pray beside one another, the earnestness of his words to God touching me each time I hear them.
I pray now too, with my heart overflowing with gratitude, knowing that God is there, not even a fraction of an inch away.
He whispers to me from His Word that His Holy Spirit is in my very heart and spirit and is a part of me.
Such closeness.
Even more than any human connection, my gratitude for God becomes more than there is room in my mind or body to contain.
I attempt to thank Him, knowing that I never can express such depth of feeling.
We love God even more than we love one another, and that is right and pure.
HE is everything and without Him, we are truly nothing.
Without Him, there is no meaning, no future, no hope.
With Him, all these things exist and give untold purpose to our existence, both now and for eternity.
I know that I can’t fathom this. I don’t need to.
There is simply, His closeness, even closer than my husband.
This God Who loves us, never sleeps but watches over us.
Now, reminded that I too am His beloved, I thank Him… and sleep.