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Do you Sleep at Night

A  farmer was looking for a new farmhand to tend to his farm and look after his animals. He had a few applicants for the position who were all totally unsuitable, and it was starting to appear as if there would be no suitable candidates for the position that he was offering.

One day a middle aged man came to the farm and stated that he was seeking to fill the position that was being offered. The man was decent looking and seemed to be capable. When the farmer asked him what was his best attribute, the man merely replied, "I sleep well at night".

Cutting a long story short, the farmer hired him as it did not seem as if he would be able to find anyone else suitable. One summer night not long after, a terrible storm occured in the middle of the night. The farmer woke up with a fright. There was lightning and thunder, and the threat of serious damage to his farm and farm animals was a great possibility.

In total panic and fear of losing his animals and experiencing damage to his crops, the farmer rushed out to the shed where his new worker was living. Rushing into the shed he woke the worker and told him to get up and come and help to get the animals into a protected area, and to cover the crops. The worker looked at the farmer and said, "I told you that I sleep well at night," and with that turned over and went back to sleep.

The farmer was infuriated and desperate, so he rushed out by himself into the fields to try get his animals to safety, but he could not see any animals in the field. Then he rushed to cover the crops, and coming to the crops he found then already covered. He went to the barn and found all the animals already safe and closed up in the barn.

The new worker could sleep at night for he had already prepared and had covered the crops and placed the animals in the barn before any threat of a storm or disaster was imminent.

Can you sleep at night? Have you done all that you are able to do, and left the life in the capable hands of Jesus, or are you like the farmer that waits for the storm to hit, before you suddenly try to call out to Jesus to help you and grab the bible and find the relevant scriptures to defend yourself.

Do not wait for hardships in your life before you cry out to Jesus to come and help you, but rather ask Jesus into your life today, and be set in a sturdy relationship with Jesus, so that when the storm does come, that you will be able to say, "I sleep at night."