30 Sep 2024

Can't sleep?

When you are distressed or troubled and you cannot sleep at night, what do you do?

Turn on the TV? Reach out for the mobile phone? Read a book?

"About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a violent earthquake, which shook the prison to its foundations. At once all the doors opened, and the chains fell off all the prisoners." (Acts 16.25-26 GNB)

Paul and Silas prayed and sang to God.

What should I do?

Praying and worshipping God may not get me out of a physical prison, if I have done something bad. But through honest personal prayer and worship, I can refocus on God and listen to him.

And listening to him may be the key that unlocks whatever mental or spiritual "prison" that is troubling or distressing me.