Control feels comforting during the day. We organize our schedules, solve problems, and try to anticipate what might go wrong. Some of that is simply wise planning. But nighttime exposes the limits of our control. We cannot force ourselves to sleep. In fact, trying harder often makes sleep more elusive. We lie in bed reviewing
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“I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.” — Psalm 4:8 David makes sleep sound wonderfully simple: lie down, rest, trust God. Our evenings often look very different. We answer one last email. Check the news. Scroll through our phones. Finish a project. Watch one
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Most of us have tried to bargain with sleep. We stay up too late during the week, push through tired mornings, and then tell ourselves, “I’ll catch up this weekend.” It sounds reasonable. But both Scripture and sleep science suggest that steady rhythms usually serve us better than occasional rescue attempts. God built rhythm into
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Long before clocks hung on walls or phones buzzed on nightstands, God built rhythm into creation. Genesis tells us that God made the lights in the heavens “to separate the day from the night” and “to mark sacred times, and days and years” (Genesis 1:14). Psalm 104 adds that God made the moon to mark
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We all want a good night’s sleep. But Scripture offers something even better: sweet sleep. Twice the Old Testament describes sleep as “sweet.” In Proverbs 3:24, wisdom promises that “your sleep will be sweet.” In Ecclesiastes 5:12, “the sleep of a laborer is sweet.” Although our English Bibles use the same word, the Hebrew paints two
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