“Have you ever stopped to think but forgot to start again?”  I saw this quote the other day and thought, Hey—somebody knows me!

It’s bad enough during the day when our minds won’t think straight, but what about at night?  How often are you awake-- up with sick kids, worrying about the next day, or frozen with pain?  Maybe you don’t even know why you are awake,  but there you are, just you and your thoughts.

As David lay awake in bed at night, he thought about the Lord (Psalm 63:6). These are times when troubles can seem even more magnified. These are times when we often struggle to turn our minds from its rumbling and jumbling and focus it on the Lord.

So, what did David do?  He returned to the promise that the Lord was His help (v.7) and…an hour later, he was still flopping around on his bed like socks in a dryer…wrong!  “Because…I will rejoice (not I might, or I will later on after I’ve worked myself up into a cappuccino lather, but I will rejoice) –that’s pretty much present tense, wouldn’t you say?

Then what happened?  He knew that his safety (“in the shadow of Thy wings”-v.7) and support (“Thy right hand upholdeth me”-v.8) were found in the Lord, and he sang.  (No, don’t necessarily run for the hymnbook and music stand, unless you want someone phoning for the ambulance when they hear your nocturnal screeching.  Get up and go into the other room, please.)  We don’t know how long David was awake, but we know that his meditation was sweet with the One Who was his Help and Strength.