Tag Archives: Sleep

He Neither Sleeps nor Slumbers (Psalm 121)

For those of us who do entrust ourselves to Christ, then death becomes just like sleep, from which we will all awake. God creates Eden after banishing the darkness and creating light but that night grew long as the curse took hold. But when this world is over and God creates the New Heavens and the New Earth, he will not just banish the darkness during the day, but forever.

Don’t You Care that We’re Dying? (Matthew 26)

We need sleep, but too often we want sleep on our own terms. When our sleep is not ordered and life giving, it no longer serves as a bridge that God provides to escape the darkness of night, but becomes instead a destructive spiral into deeper darkness.

Joy Comes in the Morning (Psalm 30)

I will exalt you, LORD,because you have lifted me upand have not allowed my enemiesto triumph over me.LORD my God,I cried to you for help, and you healed me.LORD, you brought me up from Sheol;you spared me from among thosegoing down to the Pit. Sing to the LORD, you his faithful ones,and praise his holyContinue reading “Joy Comes in the Morning (Psalm 30)”