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7. Practice "Pillow Faith"
God is better than bolts and bars. When you crawl up
in God's bosom, learn to give up the guardianship of
yourself. You can't sleep till you first "lay down." Lay
down your problems, your illness, your anxieties. Leave
tomorrow with God—He is big enough to handle it. A
resigned will comes from knowing in whose hand you
are.
Do you remember the child's prayer that goes "If I
should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to
take . .
The secret to lying down and sleeping well is to com-
mit yourself into His hands as if facing death. Actually,
if you are ready to die, you are ready to sleep. If He is
able to see you through eternity, isn't He able to see you
through tomorrow? God gives us "pillow faith"—that
is, resting in God and trusting that in the night He will
instruct us and allow us to awaken with a true sense of
direction. "My reins also instruct me in the night sea-
Sons" (Psalms 16:7 KJV).
Hope is the Christian's security blanket. Wrap your-
self in hope, and the cold blast of anxiety cannot chill
your rest. Trusting God is simply shifting our burden.
Sleep of the godly is not incidental with God. With
one hand He delivers mighty arrows of famine to de-
stroy a sinful nation; with the other He lovingly delivers
the gift of sleep to one of His children. You say God
cannot be troubled with such trivia? Then you do not
believe His Word! Not only does He deliver the gift of
sleep, He lingers to count every hair on our heads. Can-
not the creator of sleep, the inventor of rest, give it to
those who ask in faith? And, if you can't count sheep,
talk to the Shepherd.
In the midst of storms, thunder, earthquakes,
drought, war, and violence, the trusting person can
sleep unperturbed and serene in his confidence in God.
When hard times come, faith will .not shrink—because
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God is better than bolts and bars. When you crawl up
in God's bosom, learn to give up the guardianship of
yourself. You can't sleep till you first "lay down." Lay
down your problems, your illness, your anxieties. Leave
tomorrow with God—He is big enough to handle it. A
resigned will comes from knowing in whose hand you
are.
Do you remember the child's prayer that goes "If I
should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to
take . .
The secret to lying down and sleeping well is to com-
mit yourself into His hands as if facing death. Actually,
if you are ready to die, you are ready to sleep. If He is
able to see you through eternity, isn't He able to see you
through tomorrow? God gives us "pillow faith"—that
is, resting in God and trusting that in the night He will
instruct us and allow us to awaken with a true sense of
direction. "My reins also instruct me in the night sea-
Sons" (Psalms 16:7 KJV).
Hope is the Christian's security blanket. Wrap your-
self in hope, and the cold blast of anxiety cannot chill
your rest. Trusting God is simply shifting our burden.
Sleep of the godly is not incidental with God. With
one hand He delivers mighty arrows of famine to de-
stroy a sinful nation; with the other He lovingly delivers
the gift of sleep to one of His children. You say God
cannot be troubled with such trivia? Then you do not
believe His Word! Not only does He deliver the gift of
sleep, He lingers to count every hair on our heads. Can-
not the creator of sleep, the inventor of rest, give it to
those who ask in faith? And, if you can't count sheep,
talk to the Shepherd.
In the midst of storms, thunder, earthquakes,
drought, war, and violence, the trusting person can
sleep unperturbed and serene in his confidence in God.
When hard times come, faith will .not shrink—because
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