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He never sleeps....

Pastor Jim Harper

10/9/2025

Can you only imagine living life all alone?  Let me clarify.  I'm not talking about being completely isolated from other human beings.  We know from a decade worth of sold statistics that most people are more 'connected' through social media than ever before.  Granted, statistics also convey that many of the most digitally linked among us have never felt more alone - but let's press pause and return to my initial point.  I'm not referring so much to physical 'isolation' as I am 'spiritual' isolation.  I'm talking about waking up in the middle of the night to a dark, 'deafening' silence.  All real or artifical clamor from the prior day is completely abated, and in this moment, one finds him or herself completely along - physically and spiritually.

These times of 'aloneness', however, are rarely silent for most.  If they were, they'd likely be more welcomed than despised.  How many peoplejar awake from dead or even fitful sleep only to find their minds spinning with a myriad of things they didn't accomplish the prior day - staring into all the disappointments and bumbling miscalculations - all the issues positioning for 'first dibs' at break of dawn?  Here's the point.  How many people - day or night - ever find any assemblance of true 'peace'?

Though the above scenerio may describe a common plight for Christians and non-Christians alike, the ultimate outcome can (and should) be quite different.  Why?  Because Christian's are 'sealed' with a spiritual Comforter, Counselor and Advocate from the point of salvation on.  (Eph. 1; 1 Cor. 12:13; John 14:16ff)  Even when we're feeling lonely and defeated, we have scripture's promise that we are never alone.  (Hebrews 13:5)  When I wake up at night and the challenges of life (and there are many) flood in, I remember two things:

First, my heavenly Father is with me in that very moment - feeling my pain; comforting my fear; available for support. (Ps. 121:3-4)

Second, that same Heavenly Father will be with me, through His Holy Spirit, every waking moment and under any circumstance in the coming day. (Isaiah 26:3) The question is this: "Amidst whatever issues life presents in the future, will I learn to keep my eyes fixed solely on God, or allow my heart to be distracted away by my troubling, temporal circumstances?"