Able To Rest

 

Today's verse is Psalm 127:2

     It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up elate,

      To eat the bread of sorrows:

      For so he giveth his beloved sleep.

    Consider Peter, He is in jail, his friend and brother in Christ has recently been killed by the same Magistrate that now has him in jail. And what is he doing, when the Angel comes to release him? He is sleeping. He is not worried by his possible fate, for as Paul later confesses, "To live is Christ, to die is gain." How can we have this same confidence? Who do you trust? How is it displayed for others to see, not by contrivance, but an honest outworking of what Jesus is doing internally? Have you given yourself over to him that created the Heavens and the Earth, and you? Have you given over to him the outcome, whatever it may be? So shall you also be able to sleep when the work for the day is done. Amen.

To God be the Glory

Scott

Today’s reading is Song of Solomon 7-8, Psalm 127, 2 Thessalonians 2

Tomorrow’s reading will be: 1 Kings 5, 2 Chronicles 2, 2 Thessalonians 3