We Receive Instruction "Upon Thy Bed."
R____ wrote:Good morning R____,MikeThank you for your encouraging words! I do love to share what the Lord gives to me. It is the most thrilling thing I have ever experienced when I (see) something new in His word.Thanks for taking the time to share with me what you have seen in the book of Esther.Something I noticed was in...Est 6:1 On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king....comparing that with...Psa 127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.Sleep is death and we are seeking to die daily.Rev 9:6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.Just as king Ahasuerus could not sleep, there is a time we all seek that rest in the Lord and cannot find it.He commands that the book of chronicles be read. I guess in a physical way it was boring, and he found sleep. But in a spiritual way we find sleep when we see that the genealogies are what we live by in living out all those 'beget-els' leading up to the birth of Christ in us.R____
That is a good point about sleep. It is only when we are "upon our bed...dying daily" that God is working. Look at this verse.
Dan 2:28 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;Dan 2:29 As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.
Now add that to this:
Job 33:14 For God speaketh once, yea twice, [yet man] perceiveth it not.
Job 33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
Job 33:16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,
Such was the case with Jacob, Joseph, the baker, the butler, the Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, Ahasuerus, Christ's step-father, Joseph, the wise men, Pilate's wife and the apostles Peter and Paul. All had their "ears opened and received instruction from God, upon their beds." We just can't hear God's voice when doing our own works. We must be dying daily.
It is a very interesting side-note that while these instructions were comforting, encouraging and instructive to God's saints, Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, Ahasuerus, and Pilate's wife, were all "troubled" while "upon their beds."
Gen 41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but [there was] none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
Dan 2:1 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
If ever we come to see that we "live by every word of God," we will then see that we are Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar at this point in the beginning of our own walk with God. It is at this point that we ourselves are "troubled in our own spirits." At first we will always consult with the priests of Egypt and Babylon, before we cry out to God for deliverance. Then He sends us Joseph and Daniel, and we are at length given His Word.
Like you, I still get excited at every nugget of His gold which He opens my eyes to see. And that is especially true when a brother shares with me the nuggets God has given him.
So thanks again, and please continue.
Your brother in the Christ,
Mike
