| Yesterday's Bible Study |
In this short verse from Psalms, we get a tender reminder of how the Lord sustains us in every circumstance. When David wrote it, he was fleeing from his son Absalom, who was threatening to kill him. If he had a fitful night of sleep, none of us would wonder why. But that was not the case for David--he slept knowing the Lord would sustain him, and indeed the Lord did.
As Christians, each of us is under the watchful eye of the Lord. This does not mean nothing bad will ever happen to us, of course. What it means is that regardless of what happens, we can rest in the Lord and know that He will never leave us. Nothing can happen that is outside of God's will. And because He is good, everything that happens is ultimately an exercise of the Lord's goodness to us. This is a hard truth because the Lord's goodness does not always look like what we'd expect or hope--but, nonetheless, it sustains us in all circumstances.
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Sometimes the greatest act of faith is to simply lie down and sleep. When we make the decision to rest--even if we don't know how a specific circumstance or event will play out--we're exercising faith in the Lord and confidence that He is good. We're showing that our hope is in God and that such hope is enough for each of us.
When we wake up in the morning, we should thank the Lord for sustaining us throughout the night. These common mercies, as minister and Bible commentator Matthew Henry referred to them, remind us of the Lord's continued faithfulness. When we learn to thank Him for the many little things He does for us, we will begin to see how dependent on Him we already are. And, upon recognizing our great level of dependence on Him, we will be able to trust in His goodness in the big things--even to the point of David sleeping after fleeing the son who wanted him dead.
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