How true and sweet it is to find peace as we lay our heads upon our pillows.  For me this has been the most difficult peace to find.  I read a poem in a book once. Part of it has always stayed wtih me.

Wanting is waiting to receive. 

Having is Getting 

Moving Very fast is Standing Still. 

This book found me a few times as i was homeless traveling to different cities it would pop up out of nowhere in the Good will dumpster or the shelf at the homeless day center in a different city. All i can remember about it, is that it had a tree on the cover.  But God is like that he will speak to you right where you are gently patiently leading you to better purer sources of His light.  It’s sometimes easier to come to the end of ourselves when we are alone and God’s voice often becomes clearer.  Always remember He has both his hands out just waiting for you to let go and give him all your cares.  Jesus Loves you/me/us  just that much and then some, always.  

VLR 

Faith’s Check Book, Daily Entry

C. H. Spurgeon

March 25

Refreshing Sleep

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. (Proverbs 3:24)

Is the reader likely to be confined for a while to the bed by sickness! Let him go upstairs without distress with this promise upon  

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. (Proverbs 3:24)

Is the reader likely to be confined for a while to the bed by sickness! Let him go upstairs without distress with this promise upon his heart “When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid.” 

When we go to bed at night, let this word smooth our pillow. We cannot guard ourselves in sleep, but the Lord will keep us through the night. Those who lie down under the protection of the Lord are as secure as kings and queens in their palaces, and a great deal more so. If with our lying down there is a laying down of all cares and ambitions, we shall get refreshment out of our beds such as the anxious and covetous never find in theirs. Ill dreams shall be banished, or even if they come, we shall wipe out the impression of them, knowing that they are only dreams. 

If we sleep thus we shall do well. How sweetly Peter slept when even the angel’s light did not wake him, and he needed a hard jog in the side to wake him up. And yet he was sentenced to die on the morrow. Thus have martyrs slept before their burning. “So he giveth his beloved sleep.” To have sweet sleep we must have sweet lives, sweet tempers, sweet meditations, and sweet love.

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