To be near unto God - pagina 420

ferent from what it is, but purifying our imagination and cleansing our thoughts will in time transport our dreams into sinless domains. Our responsibility for what our mind does in sleepless hours of night is of necessity far greater. For in the darkness of night our spirit can invite the world, or it can meditate and ponder on holy things. It can also toss itself about in us with-

out will and without aim. What our spirit then must do in the darkness, is to open the door to holy things and dwell in a higher world. Even

when

in the midst of sleep there

is

a quarter of

an hour of wakefulness the mind can and should engage itself with God. The first thought on awaking must be again of God. "0 God, Thou art my God: early in the morning will I seek Thee" (Ps. 63:1 Dutch version). For him who so understands it, sleepless slumber is a spiritual gold mine. In such sleepless nights many people have been wonderfully enriched in spiritual things. Here also is Divine mercy. Sleeplessness is occasioned by our misery, but this misery also God by his grace transposes into supreme mercifulness. In such nights God has remembered his own with such spiritual benefits that a night of sleep has sometimes seemed a loss. Divine work goes on through the hours of night in the souls of hia elect in a way that glorifies his name. 78

"I

WAIT FOR THEE ALL THE DAY LONG."

The

with the Father and the Son, mainpower, and causes it to work not only in

Spirit,

tains all

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