Sleep

If you haven't traveled by plane over a twenty four hour period across fourteen time zones, you haven't lived! My brain doesn't seem to be functioning.

Sleep is a great gift from the LORD.

Proverbs 3:24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid;
    when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.

Having been deprived of sleep for the last day, it will be a great blessing to rest.

Nothing in Proverbs 3:24 promises that you will be comfortable when you lie down. Or even that you are promised a good place to lie down each day. I was neither comfortable, nor did I have a good place to lie down during the flights.

So what is this verse trying to say? When we are in right relationship with the LORD, we don't need to be afraid. The worst thing that can happen to us is that we die. And if we die we enter the LORD's presence. No more tears, or sorrow, or pain. All things will have become new. 

When we rest in Him, trusting that He will care for us, as He has promised, then we can breathe a sigh of relief that we made it through another day, and that a new day is coming. He will sustain us.

Well, time to catch a few winks in our new time zone.