and the One who walks with me on it.

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Sleepy…


Some say I'm like Dory!
      Okay, I don’t know what’s going to come out of the weird space that is my head right now, but we’ll see where it goes.  I fell asleep around 7:30 pm and woke up about 45 min. ago only to keep falling asleep at the computer.  Good thing God doesn’t fall asleep like that! 

       I guess He wouldn’t be God if He did since He knows everything and sees everything both of which you can’t do if you are sleeping.  When the movie ‘Finding Nemo’ came out, I went to see it in the theaters.  It was probably about twenty minutes in that I fell asleep.  It happened again the next two times I tried to watch the movie at home.  The kids would talk about different funny scenes, this group of turtles, and repeat some of the movie lines all of which I missed in my slumber.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where shall my help come from? My help comes from Jehovah, who made Heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
Jehovah is your keeper; Jehovah is your shade on your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. Jehovah shall keep you from all evil; He shall keep your soul. Jehovah shall keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore.  Ps. 121:1-8

Glad God doesn't do this!
       Our help comes from the One who watches over us (our personal watchman) day and night.  He doesn’t need sleep, so He can (keep) ‘stand guard’ over us.  He will not fall asleep on the job, let down His guard or leave us vulnerable to the enemy, but will continue to guard over us throughout the ‘dark times’ of the night.  He won’t drift off and miss important things when He’s tired because He doesn’t slumber.

       He shades us in the daytime during our ‘siestas’ so that the sun can not strike us / harm us.  In fact, His guarding over us doesn’t stop during the daylight hours, but continues all day long.  He is our keeper: He guards our soul from the enemy.  That doesn’t mean we can’t go through tough times for tough times are promised by the Lord (Jh. 16:33), but that the enemy will never have victory over us.  He can’t.  Victory is the Lord’s (1Cr. 15:57). 


In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer.
I have overcome the world. 
Jh. 16:33