God Never Sleeps

Jeremiah 33:3
Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.

I Peter 5:6-7
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

Psalm 4:8
I will both lie down in peace, and sleep; for You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.

I was recently talking with someone in the medical profession, and he shared with me that one of the major problems we are facing in America today is insomnia. It seems that people just cannot get to sleep.

Well, I stopped to think about it. I was trying to figure out all the different reasons I have heard why people cannot sleep. We always think about eating pizza or ice cream right before bed. The other one we hear quite frequently is, "My spouse is snoring too loudly and I just cannot sleep." How about a scary movie? When you watch one it is not always easy to sleep. That can cause you to worry, feel stressed and rob you of sleep. Crying babies, noisy neighbors, most of all I think it is stress - too much to do.

We are too busy, and when we lie down at night, we have so many things on our mind that we just do not let the mind shut off. Some of those things we can do something about. Some of them we cannot.

It would be nice if we could take a sock and put it in our spouse's mouth sometimes to keep that person from snoring. Or we ould just stop eating the ice cream and pizza right before bed. A crying baby - well, we have to tend to that one. Noisy neighbors - we cannot always do much about that one, except maybe complain a little bit or perhaps close the window.

But what about that worry and stress - the one that plagues us so much and so often? Well, scripture tells us what to do in a verse I quote often. Jeremiah 33:3 says, "Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know." So when we are looking for solutions to what is going to happen, we can remember to call on God.

I Peter 5:7 says, "Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you."

When you think about sleep, remember this quote from Victor Hugo, "Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace, God is awake."

Have you thought about that? The scriptures tell us that God never slumbers nor sleeps, and when we worry we can take all our cares to Him because He will still be awake. He will take care of all the details. Friend, as you face another sleepless night, why not cast all of your cares on Him? Talk to Him, and then as it says in Psalm 4:8, "I will both lie down in peace, and sleep; for You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety."

By Dr. Ann Shorb

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