July 2
REFRESHING SLEEP
"So he giveth his beloved sleep" Ps. 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.