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Psalm chapter 4 verse 8 in peace I will both lie down and sleep for For you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety. This is a great

verse particularly following up on the verse we meditated on from Psalm chapter 3 in verse 5 where David wrote I lay down and

slept and I woke again for the Lord sustain me so he was talking about how how God sustains him and waking him up in the morning.

And then in chapter 4 we have David talking about how when he goes to sleep, he goes to sleep in

peace.

Why?

Because God makes him dwell in peace. Why? Because God makes him dwell in safety. I want you to think about

what happens when you lay down at night. You put your head on your pillow and you think about the day, all that you

did, all that you said, all that you saw, maybe you consider the next day day there's so many things going on in our

lives that we have to think about when we lay down at night sometimes we just

want to stop thinking about it all sometimes our minds are just full of all these things

sometimes with stress or worry or anxiety

about this or that.

And in the middle of it all,

Psalm 4-8 says,

you can lie down and sleep in peace.

Why?

Because you know that the Lord causes you to dwell in safety.

In other words, the Lord has your life in his hands and this is

peace giving. You think about it, sleep is a pretty humbling thing. One of my

favorite quotes on sleep is from John Piper. He once said

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