I lay down and slept; yet I woke in safety, for the Lord was watching over me.
Psalm 3:5
Can you imagine hate so thick between you and your grown child that they plot your death in order to get what’s yours? Absalom’s rebellion would have made sleep impossible, the pressure unbearable. Yet… David lay down and slept. And not only did he sleep—he woke again.
So what’s David’s big secret to sleep? It wasn’t a stiff drink or a smooth hit. David didn’t have a therapy session that day. He didn’t follow a specific diet. No… the fugitive said, “The Lord was watching over me.”
It’s grace like this that makes me question my faith in God. And I don’t believe that struggle a negative. In fact, Scripture says, “work out your salvation in fear and trembling.” Christians work it out. We don’t stuff it down, pump ourselves up, and wait for confidence to show up.
David cried out to God, “Lord, I have so many enemies; so many are against me. So many are saying, ‘God will never rescue him.'” Isn’t that what our enemy tells us—”God won’t rescue you.”? I hear it all the time. Just heard it this morning. Probably hear it a dozen times more before my head hits the pillow.
“But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, my glory and the One who lifts up my head. I cried to the Lord with my voice, and He heard me from His holy hill.”
This quietude of a man’s heart by faith in God, is a higher sort of work than the natural resolution of manly courage, for it is the gracious operation of God’s Holy Spirit upholding a man above nature, and therefore the Lord must have all the glory of it.” ~Charles Spurgeon (emphasis mine)
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