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Posted by Psalms on Friday, 12 February 2016
Psalms 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
127:2. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows. We are bound to be diligent, for this the Lord blesses; we ought not to be anxious, for that dishonors the Lord, and can never secure his favor. Some deny themselves needful rest. They threaten to brings themselves into the sleep of death by neglect of the sleep which refreshes life. They stint themselves in their meals, they eat the commonest kind of food, and the smallest possible quantity of it, and what they do swallow is washed down with the salty tears of grief, for they fear that daily bread will fail them. Hard earned is their food, scantily rationed, and scarcely ever sweetened, but perpetually smeared with sorrow; and all because they have no faith in God, and find no joy except in hoarding up the gold which is their only trust. Not thus, not thus, would the Lord have his children live. He would have them, as princes of the race, lead a happy and restful life.
For so he giveth his beloved sleep. Through faith the Lord makes his chosen ones to rest in him in happy freedom from care. The text may mean that God gives blessings to his beloved in sleep, just as he gave Solomon the desire of his heart while he slept. The meaning is much the same: those whom the Lord loves are delivered from the fret and fume of life. God is sure to give the best thing to his beloved, and we here see that he gives them sleep—a laying aside of care, a forgetfulness of need, a quiet leaving of matters with God: this kind of sleep is better than riches and honor. Note how Jesus slept amid the hurly-burly of a storm at sea. He knew that he was in his Father’s hands.
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