I don't even know how I got tired enough to sleep for 10 hours!! Maybe it was the craziness of work or the warmth of my cozy bed restraining my will to get up, but man did it feel good!
"I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the Lord sustains me."
-Psalm 3:5
10 hours is a long time. 10 hours is a full day of school plus a track meet and dinner when I was in high school. 10 hours is a road trip to Virginia. 10 hours would make me enough money at work for almost two tanks of gas! A lot could happen in 10 hours.
When we sleep we lay down in utter vulnerability. Think of all that could happen in a night's rest, especially my mammoth one that lasted for 10 hours. In 10 hours a tree could fall on my house. In 10 hours my house could have been broken into and everything been stolen. In 10 hours I could have had a sudden health issue come to the surface in the form of a stroke or heart attack.
Now, I'm not trying to sound all doom and gloom here. Quite contrary, I'm rejoicing in the fact that I woke up. When you think about how the Lord guards us in the night, when we are completely vulnerable and helpless in our slumber, it could potentially blow your mind and change your day!
Even better than that concept of incredible protection is the waking up part: the morning. Upon opening our eyelids, we are subject to the lovely phenomenon of being reborn while still in the same body.
We are refreshed, made new, not only blinded by sweet sunlight (or darkness if you wake up at 5:45 like me!!), but our trials and tragedies from previous days are blinded by today's redeeming promises.
We begin our day with God's promise to lift us up, the chance to walk in His ways, the chance to know His joy and have the blessing of encouraging someone else with His presence about your being.
Each day is a gift, a blessing, a new opportunity for adventure!
We are saved every morning!
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