Psalm 127:2 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. I. PROTECTION (Psalm 121:3, 4; Psalm 91:1, 5, 9, 10). II. REFRESHMENT (Ecclesiastes 5:12; Jeremiah 31:26). III. ENLIGHTENMENT (Genesis 46:2; Daniel 7:1; Acts 16:9; Acts 18:9). No one is foolish enough to think that there is a Providence — a voice from God — in all our dreams. Perhaps most of them are self-originated. But unquestionably there are gifts of God — revelations of God to His tried, and sorrowing, and faithful ones in sleep. There are, perhaps, few of His children who have not heard His voice in the night. He not only protects and refreshes us, but enlightens us. Let us not despise those good and perfect gifts which come from above in the hours of gloom and loneliness. Let us thank and bless God for all those precious things which He giveth to His beloved while they sleep. (A. G. Maitland.) Parallel Verses KJV: 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. |
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