Sweet Sleep

After a sleepless night fueled by a restless spirit and running imagination, the morning greeted me with this:

Give to the wind your fears. Hope and be undismayed. God hears your sighs and counts your tears. God will lift up your head. - Jars of Clay

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Paul prays this prayer for the Ephesians: I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do immesurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen.

If the test is to strengthen my faith in Christ, grow in the understanding of His love and know what David meant when he said my cup overflows, is it worth it? If I gain nothing but a closer walk with Him, receive His love in every situation, is it worth it? If all that He has is nothing I ask or imagine but it brings Him glory, is it worth it?

Tough questions. Something to think about.