Monday... How did you sleep last night?

Monday... How did you sleep last night? So much is happening all around us that could keep us awake. So how did you sleep last night?

David lived it seem though difficulty after difficulty. Some were his fault as much of what keeps us awake is our fault. But David would write a Psalm to let us know how God was helping him through a particular difficulty. Psalms 3 is such a Psalm.

It seems he wrote this Psalm about the tine he was fleeing from his son Absalom. You can read the story beginning in 2 Samuel 14.

He starts this Psalm by saying, "O Lord, I have so many enemies; so many are against me. So many are saying, 'God will never rescue him!'" Now that would keep me awake.

He goes on, verse 3, "But you, O Lord, are a shield around me; you are my glory, the one who holds my head high." Now that's a way to counteract the negative thoughts coming into our brain. He the says, "I cried out to the Lord, and he answered me from his holy mountain." Another good thing to do is to pray.

He then says, "I lay down and slept, yet I awoke up in safety, for the Lord was watching over me." We're not going through this alone. He is watching over us.

He goes on in verse 8 (NIV), "From the Lord comes deliverance." That's the word that caught my attention this morning, the word deliverance. "From the Lord comes deliverance." Not from whomever we will elect tomorrow as President. God may work through them but "From the Lord comes deliverance." The NLT says, "Victory comes from you, O Lord. May you bless your people."

So what is it that is keeping you awake? Now that is a great way to handle our struggles at getting a good night of sleep. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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