God Is Our Relief From Life’s Nightmares

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Today’s reading: Psalm 91

I probably saw too many war movies on TV when I was a child. For as long as I can remember, I have had recurring nightmares that I had somehow stumbled into a fit of combat, complete with bullets flying past my head and men’s bodies suddenly exploding all around me.

I always wake fitfully from these images and immediately realize that it is all just a dream. And that experience of relief brings me closer to God.

In my waking hours I have never experienced anything even remotely as frightening as a military battle. But should such horror ever come upon me, I know God will comfort me in “real life” just as He does in these nightmares.  He will wake me suddenly in the midst of my terror, and I will find myself surrounded by His eternal peace.

I have found myself meditating on that wonderful thought countless times in my life as I lay  silently recovering from a nightmare.

And it came to mind again today as I poured over this horrible image of an ancient battle today’s Psalmist probably experienced first-hand.

“You will not fear the terror of the night, or the arrow that flies by day, or the pestilence that stalks in darkness, or the destruction that wastes at noonday. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. You will only look with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.” (Verse 5-8)

Thanks be to God for eternal protection from all that is evil.