Posted on 06/03/2021 1:43:02 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet” (Proverbs 3:24 KJV).
David wrote that “He giveth his beloved sleep” (Psalm 127:2). How blessed is the sleep that the Father gives His children, there just isn’t anything like it! I can remember back to when sleep didn’t always come so easy, before I knew the rest that the Lord gives.
There are a lot of millionaires that don’t know anything about sweet peace. They got money! They got all kinds of possessions! But they lie awake at night worrying about how they are going to keep it. They think about how they are going to invest. They worry about whether the stock market is going up or going down. Or who is going to fight whom over the inheritance. If you invest your money the way God says you should invest it and you can lay down and go to sleep. Just put it all in His hands. If it goes down the tubes, it was His will. Either way, it and you are secure.
“When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet,” there is just a whole lot that could be said about that.
“Be not afraid of sudden fear,” unless you are guilty of something. If you are doing wrong, you better be afraid, “But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23 KJV). But if you are doing right, don’t worry about it. When the storms come up, you’ll be all right.
AN INFIDEL’S TESTIMONY:
“Did I firmly believe, as millions say they do, that the knowledge and practice of religion in this life influences destiny in another, religion would be to me everything. I would cast aside earthly enjoyments as dross, earthly cares as follies and earthly thoughts and feelings as vanity. Religion would be my first waking thought and my last image before sleep sank me into unconsciousness.
“I would labor in its cause alone. I would take thought for the morrow of eternity alone. I would esteem one soul gained for Heaven worth a life of suffering. Earthly consequence would never stay my hand nor seal my lips. Earth, its joys and its griefs, would occupy no moment of my thoughts.
“I would strive to look upon eternity alone and on the immoral souls around me, soon to be everlastingly miserable or everlastingly happy. I would go forth to the world and preach to it in season and out of season, and my text would be Mark 8:36: ‘What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?’”
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Great post!
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