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Psalm 121, verses 3 and 4.

He will not let your foot be moved.

He who keeps you will not slumber.

Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

This is an awesome reality that we are reminded of literally every single day, or at least we should think about every single day. Or at least we're reminded

of in our lives, we need to remember this at the same time about God. So every single day,

you and I require sleep. Like there's been times, there are days when I've gone without sleep,

but it's been clear that I need sleep. And the same is true with you.

Even if you try to pull an all-nighter and stay up,

like at some point, you need to lay down and go to sleep.

And it's a pretty humbling thing, isn't it?

Like, think about it, God didn't have to create us this way.

God did not have to create us such that every night our bodies are totally worn down.

We have to lay down like a sack of potatoes and go unconscious for a number of hours in order to recharge and go again. God made us in such a way

that we have to sleep. It's a pretty humbling thing. And you know what

happens while we sleep? God keeps going. He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

So you and I can run frantically through this life, like trying to get all

these things done, like the world will fall apart if we don't do these things, but every single day

for hours, we are laying down. And apparently the world goes on. It's a pretty humbling thing that we are creatures who must

sleep and it brings us to yet one more difference between us and our creator because he never

sleeps and this is really good news. When you and I lay our heads down at night,

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