Just a quick thought…
Tonight I was babysitting the kiddos…3 amazing children of God to say the least. After they had said their prayers and were all tucked away upstairs, I went downstairs and grabbed my pen and notebook to take advantage of the silence and get some writing in. Not long after the kids had gone to bed, I heard a little voice crying out from upstairs, “I want my cover”. I took off running upstairs to see what was wrong, only to find one of the boys crying in the bottom bunk, searching for his covers. They had fallen off of him onto the floor and it was so dark, he couldn’t see to find them. So after I came to the conclusion that he just wanted his covers, I covered him up, and said, “You’re okay buddy”. After he was covered up he grabbed my hand and fell right back to sleep. When I saw that he was okay, I went back downstairs and continued writing…but my subject immediately changed. I thought, “I want MY cover God”. Sitting in the silence and basking in His goodness, I realized there have been so many times when I have lost my covers in the darkness and needed to cry out to Him in order to ever get them back. I am 21 years old and to this day I must have my covers when I go to sleep at night, because without them I don’t feel as safe. Now I don’t know if that is what was going through this 2-year-old boy’s head when he woke up and realized his covers were not covering him, but this is what I got out of it. A really close friend recently shared with me some scriptures about resting in God. Psalms 3:5 “I lie down and sleep and all night long the Lord protects me. I am not afraid of the thousands of enemies who surround me on every side.” And Psalms 4:8 “When I lie down, I go to sleep in peace; You alone, O Lord, keep me perfectly safe.” So reading these, I see that just like a mother and father care for their children and want them to have a safe place to rest peacefully, our Father in heaven desires us to rest in Him and not worry about the monsters that hide in the dark. Just as a mother or father runs to their child when they cry for help, our Heavenly Father does the same. He “covers” us so that we can feel safe. And if we somehow slip out from under the covers and start to feel a bit shaken and scared, all we have to do is cry out to Him and He runs to our side to cover us again…reassuring us that we are “okay”.
So to anyone who is reading this, I pray God’s covering of safety and peace as you rest in Him tonight. Thank You, God for always having me covered.
