Scripture Devotion
You lay down; another stays awake.
“I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.”
Reflection
The peace and the sleep come together, and both rest on a single reason: thou, LORD, only. Not the doors being locked, not the week's problems being solved, not tomorrow being secured — only the LORD makes the dwelling safe. The safety is located in a keeper, not in circumstances arranged well enough to permit rest. That word only is the release. If safety depended on everything being handled, no one would ever lie down in peace, because something is always unhandled. Saturday's rest is possible precisely because the keeping isn't yours to do. You lay down; another stays awake. That's the arrangement that lets the eyes close.