Should Christians Always Be at Peace? | The Writings | Psalm 4

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🗓️ 4 January 2024

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Since you believe in a sovereign, all-knowing God, does that mean you get an anxiety-free life? Do true Christians spend nights wrestling with spiraling thoughts? Did Jesus ever have sleepless nights? Patrick shares encouragement from Psalm 4. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Psalm 4

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life,
0:09.0	in the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.0	I'm Patrick Miller. Do you end your days in peace or anxiety? When your head
0:18.1	hits the pillow, do you fall asleep or do you find a spindly ball of yarn slowly unwinding as you replay what happened and worry about what's to come?
0:28.0	Chances are that you've experienced both. I know I have. But coming into the new year, I've felt more like that ball of yarn.
0:36.0	The last few months have been full of unexpected transitions and challenges for me personally.
0:41.2	Add to that, I'm working on my next book and that
0:43.4	manuscript is due, I don't know, tomorrow. And so when my head hits the
0:47.6	pillow I'm not a peaceful baby. Not that pre-sleeved babies are very
0:52.0	peaceful in my experience but you get the idea.
0:54.9	Instead, that ball of yarn is unwinding.
0:58.4	Moments are replaying, worries are creeping in, and perhaps when you hear this you think that Christians
1:04.1	shouldn't be like that. We should always be at rest because we worship a
1:07.8	sovereign God in charge of everything. And that's true. We do worship a sovereign God, but we also live in a broken world.
1:16.5	In Luke's Gospel, he describes Jesus often going out in the night to pray.
1:21.5	We don't know if he couldn't sleep or if he was replying moments from the day before or if he was worried about what was to come.
1:28.0	Though on at least one of those occasions in the Garden of Gethseini, we do know his mental state.
1:34.0	He was in anguish.
1:35.0	He prayed three times for God to take away the cup before him.
1:39.0	It was the cup of God's wrath.
1:41.0	It was the cup that was going to be poured out on him on the cross.
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