Asleep,....REALLY!

I listened to James McDonald on Walk in the Word teaching Acts 12 this morning. I really like the way he teaches and I almost always leave with a nuggget of truth to tuck into my heart. Today my nugget was verse six..... "And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter WAS SLEEPING between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison." Acts 12:6.... This may not mean much to you unless you know the rest of the story. Peter was to be put to death in a short time, he was in prison surrounded by sixteen soilders and bound in chains and yet he slept. HE SLEPT!!! SNOOZED...SAWED SOME LOGS...HE SLEPT!!!! I am utterly ashamed of the things that rob me of my peace in Christ. I have never been placed in anything as fearful as Peter, and yet I allow lies to steal from me the peace that comes from knowing the truth that God is IN CONTROL....even when I can't see how things will ever work, or when I don't feel like God is there, or when my circumstances scream that there is no hope.... GOD IS IN CONTROL!!! AND He is REALLY good at His job. So, I can sleep soundly while God works and trust that whatever He does will be a hundred thousand times better than anything I could do on my own. It is my prayer that God will continue to grow in me and that I will learn to shine brighter for Him! And that I will trust more fully in Him and cling to Him as the sustainer of this simple little life I lead. I like to share what I learn with people I love in the hopes that it will encourage someone, somewhere.