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From: "Bob Hoffman" <bhoffman@fmlynet.org>

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      Friday 03-25 / Refreshing Sleep
      Robert Prodoehl
      Mar 24, 2005


Refreshing Sleep

"When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid. yea, thou shalt lie down, and
thy sleep shall be sweet" (Proverbs 3:24).

Is the reader likely to be confined for a while to the bed by sickness! Let him
go upstairs without distress with this promise upon his heart "When thou liest
down, thou shalt not be afraid." When we go to bed at night, let this word
smooth our pillow. We cannot guard ourselves in sleep, but the LORD will keep
us through the night. Those who lie down under the protection of the LORD are
as secure as kings and queens in their palaces, and a great deal more so. If
with our lying down there is a laying down of all cares and ambitions, we shall
get refreshment out of our beds such as the anxious and covetous never find in
theirs. Ill dreams shall be banished, or even if they come, we shall wipe out
the impression of them, knowing that they are only dreams. If we sleep thus we
shall do well. How sweetly Peter slept when even the angel's light did not wake
him, and he needed a hard jog in the side to wake him up. And yet he was
sentenced to die on the morrow. Thus have martyrs slept before their burning.
"So he giveth his beloved sleep." To have sweet sleep we must have sweet lives,
sweet tempers, sweet meditations, and sweet love

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785 C.M. J. HART
The Crucifixion. Ps. 22. 11-18; 69. 19-21

1 Oh! what a sad and doleful night
Preceded that day's morn,
When darkness seized the Lord of light, And sin by Christ was borne!

2 When our intolerable load
Upon his soul was laid,
And the vindictive wrath of God
Flamed furious on his head!

3 We in our Conqueror well may boast; For none but God alone
Can know how dear the victory cost, How hardly it was won.

4 [Forth from the garden fully tried, Our bruisŠd Champion came,
To suffer what remained beside
Of pain, and grief, and shame.

5 Mocked, spit upon, and crowned with thorn, A spectacle he stood;
His back with scourges lashed and torn; A victim bathed in blood.

6 Nailed to the cross through hands and feet, He hung in open view;
To make his sorrows quite complete, By God deserted too!]

7 Through nature's works the woes he felt With soft infection ran;
The hardest thing could break or melt, Except the heart of man.

8 This day before thee, Lord, we come; O melt our hearts, or break;
For, should we now continue dumb,
The very stones would speak.

9 [True, thou hast paid the heavy debt, And made believers clean,
But he knows nothing of it yet,
Who is not grieved at sin.

10 A faithful friend of grief partakes; But union can be none
Betwixt a heart like melting wax
And hearts as hard as stone;

11 Betwixt a head diffusing blood
And members sound and whole;
Betwixt an agonising God
And an unfeeling soul.]

12 Lord, my longed happiness is full, When I can go with thee
To Golgotha; the place of skull
Is heaven on earth to me.

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