Why did God imagine sleep? He never sleeps!
He thought the idea up out of nothing. He thought it up for his earthly creatures.
Peaceful sleep is the opposite of anxiety. God does not want his children to be anxious, but to trust him.
Therefore I conclude that God made sleep as a continual reminder that we should not be anxious but should rest in Him.
Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. “He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep” (Psalm 121:4). But Israel will. For we are not God.
Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable.
To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day. Sleep is a parable that God is God and we are mere men.
God handles the world quite nicely while an entire hemisphere sleeps.
He is not nearly so impressed with our late nights and early mornings as He is with the peaceful trust that casts all anxieties on Him and sleeps.
Will you savor the blessing of sleep today – or succumb to the spirit of anxiety?
Josh Etter
Desiring God Ministries
© Josh Etter
www.desiringgod.org
Your comments, thoughts or suggestions are welcome. The body text is by the author, the header and the words in italics are mine – John B. Samuel
Changi Chapel 
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