“But You are a shield around me, O LORD; You bestow glory on me and lift up my head. To the LORD I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy hill. I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the LORD sustains me. I will not fear the tens of thousands drawn up against me on every side.” (Psalm 3:3-6)
When fear invades our hearts and minds, many times it is hard to get restful sleep- or even sleep at all. Our minds spin out of control thinking about what happened, what could happen, what the worst case scenario would be, how we would fix the worst case scenario if in case it did happen, and so forth. Yikes! Out of control! When our minds go down that pathway, sleep is hard to come by. Rest is absent from our physical bodies, as well as our spiritual bodies. God calls us to rest…to rest in HIM…to trust Him…to have God-size faith. David had this kind of trust in the Lord. In Psalm 3, when he was fleeing for his very life from Absalom (his son), he rested. “I lie down and sleep…” (vs. 5a). How could he do this with his own life on the line? Because he had faith that God was a shield around him, that God bestowed glory on him and lifted up his head, and that the Lord heard and answered his cry. David knew that the Lord sustained him…he knew that in the Lord was deliverance and blessing. When we have real faith like that, we can rest peacefully…knowing that God is a shield around us.
Lord, may we rest in You.
