PETER SLEEPING
PETER SLEEPING
When you are faithful you will find that the Lord does not remove the pressure from off you until you are asleep in it, until you are able to take it quietly. You learn His grace first, and then His mercy. Look at Paul and Silas at Philippi singing praises. Look at Peter asleep in the prison. People seem to forget Deuteronomy 8: 2, “Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee”. You remember the mercies, you forget the trying of your faith. You are troubled and have no faith, then you cry to Him and He relieves you, for He is full of tender mercy. You may awake Him as the disciples did when they cried, “Lord, save us”, (Matthew 8: 25) but then you lose His power, which would have sustained you in the trial.
‘O child, my heart’s beloved! sweet to me
As psaltery and as psalm
The voice of him, who on the midnight sea
Can praise through storm and calm’.