For our Lenten readings as a church we are reflecting on one of the Psalms each day.
The reflective question from Psalm 3 is, 'What is happening spiritually when I am asleep?'
Psalm 3 is a battle-type Psalm but in the midst of enemies, David anticipates a good sleep 'because the Lord sustains me'. (He wasn't always enjoying good sleep in the psalms, but that's for another day (night?)).
A person's waking faith (say, two thirds of their life) sustains them in their sleep (one third). After all, a sleeping atheist is actively believing as much as a sleeping Christian; a sleeping Hindu has the same non-theological thoughts as a sleeping Christian - and so on. For anyone who thinks that our relationship with God depends on what we do - or on what we are actively believing - there is a third of our life that testifies it is down to Him, not us.
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