Wednesday... Do you have trouble in the night?

That can be a time with we are vulnerable and when all of our problems and unresolved issues seem to attack us in our sleep.

David in Psalm 63 was out in the wilderness of Judah. Night can be that to many of us. It seems that we can get lost and everyone is asleep and we feel all alone.

Well, David gives some very good advice. In verse 6 (AMP) he says, "When I remember You on my bed, I meditate and thoughtfully focus on You in the night watches." Life and its difficulties love to attack us in the night watches but it is also a great time to focus not on them but to meditate and thoughtfully focus on God in those night watches.

David continues the thought in verses 7-8 and shows us what we are to meditate and thoughtfully focus on about God. In verses 7-8 he says, "For you have been my help, and in the shadow of Your wings [where I am always protected] I sing for joy."

The whole key here is to change our focus in our wilderness, in our night watches. Our night can bring deep desperation but it is a tremendous time to strengthen our hope by thoughtfully changing our focus from our problem and desperation to God and it is a battle but it is a battle that can be won.

The NIV says, "I lie awake thinking of you, meditating on you through the night, Because you are my helper, I sing for joy in the shadow of your wings. I cling to you; your strong right hand holds me securely."

It doesn't say, I lie awake thinking of my problems, no "I lie awake thinking of you, meditating on you through the night." So what do I think about? I think about the fact, that "you are my helper." He's going to help me with this problem. And I'm going to sing for joy in the shadow of your wings. Now I may need to do that quietly so I don't wake up the house and the key is, it is better to sing for joy than singing the blues. Which is what we tend to do in the night. It is all in our focus.

The Message says, "If I'm sleepless at midnight, I spend the hours in grateful reflection. Because you've always stood up for me, I'm free to run and play. I hold on to you for dear life, and you hold me steady as a post."

So use that waking up time by showing Satan that it is a waste of time for him to do that because your going to gratefully reflect how God has stood up for you and that you are going to hold on to him for dear life and that you will be steady as a post.

Now that is the way to handle that time and you will be amazed at how God will show you at some point a solution through your thoughtful meditating on him. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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