Psalm 4

I've been doing a lot of verse 1 lately:

Answer me when I call to you,
my righteous God.
Give me relief from my distress;
have mercy on me and hear my prayer.

I know God is aware of me, and I know He is constantly so. Yet, even David felt the need to give a kind of "Hey God, over here- I need you to pay attention to me!" It's not wrong to ask- even demand- God's attention. But I think maybe it's more for us to feel better than it is to actually change the attention God is giving us. He's pretty invested and interested already.

I also share David's frustration with people turning to anything and anyone else for security. I'm kind of a political watcher, and I've been noticing a trend that people think a politician can make things better. In fact, there is a very loud cry in America right now like in verse 6, "Who will bring us prosperity?"

David's answer is not a president, or business man, or an economic plan. Really, his answer has nothing to do with prosperity as we'd like it, but rather seeing and knowing God. There we find a different kind of prosperity. And peace.

David concludes again that he will sleep well. You've heard 'sleep of the just' and 'sleep like a baby.' David sleeps like the safe. Rescued by God, and guarded.

Better than Ambien.