Scheduled Reading (Click here to read the passages; Click back in your browser to return to this devotional)
- 2 Chronicles 10 - 12:16
- Psalm 91:5-11
- Proverbs 19:6-8
- Acts 20:1-16
Sleep Deprivation in the Bible
Poor Eutychus. I am sure you are familiar with that dreaded feeling of trying will all your might to stay awake, but just not able to. In the end you succumb to Morpheus. Imagine the surprise Eutychus must have felt as he awoke to feel himself falling out of that third story window. Imagine the horror the people gathered there must have felt to witness such a tragedy. Imagine the relief when Paul pronounced him alive.
Difficult things happen, even when we are in the middle of doing what we ought to be doing. When hardship does strike, we have two options: 1. Resent God and blame Him. or 2. Cling to God and glorify Him. Satan uses such opportunities to impose his will on us: to steal, kill and to destroy. We have the power to rob him of that pleasure. If we only cling to our Lord and say "I don't like this. I wish it hadn't happened. I don't understand this. I can't handle it. YOU handle it God! I am anxious to see what good you can bring out of it!"
Then, instead of being embittered and controlled by a tragedy, we can be a part of a miracle as God brings meaning out of the senseless. And He will do it - for His glory and our good.
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