Sleepless in Seattle

“It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for so He gives His beloved sleep.” (Psalms 127:2)

In the 1993 Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle, a recently widowed man’s son calls on a radio talk show to find his dad a girlfriend. The good news from God is that we don’t have to be sleepless in Seattle or anywhere for it is God who’ll gives us sleep. Getting up early, staying up late and eating the bread of sorrows is vain and is definitely not God’s way. Living in the Promised Land means God is the source of our provision and our life and work is an act of worship to Him. Work is no longer something that must be sweated and toiled upon to make ends meet.

God has made it abundantly clear that obedience to His Word is the assurance of provision. If we toil like a workaholic due to fear of non-provision, then we are operating in unbelief and our faith is contaminated. We are saying that it is entirely up to us, not God, to make things happen. There may be times when we work longer hours because of a deadline, but the motive must not be out of fear of loss or fear of non-provision. If we are obedient to what God has called us to, He will provide for our every need and give us plenty of sleep.

Sleep in the Hebrew context means that we have shalom, peace or wholeness, with nothing missing, nothing broken in our lives. If we are obedient to what God has called each of us to in His Word, we will not lack for God will see to it that we get the provision for the mission. At times it may be less than what we hoped for, and at other times it may be more than we deserve. God wants us to be fully equipped for the Great Commission that He has called us to do (Mark 16:15), and God’s will is God’s bill. These are God’s ways, for as the heavens are higher than the earth, they are much higher than our ways. (Isaiah 55:9)

There is plenty of wealth in the hands of sinners that is waiting to be transferred into the hands of the faithful remnant in order to preach the gospel of salvation to the lost and finance the great end time harvest of souls. The Rolling Stones may have Bridges to Babylon, but the Bible tells us to come out of Babylon. (Revelation 18:4) Babylon is a system of the world and the flesh that is contrary to the Word of God, and many of us are still operating from a Babylonian value system that worships power, profit, prestige and pleasure. And until we come out of Babylon, we will not be getting any sleep.
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