Who’s Sleeping In My Bed
Hosea 1:1-3 New Living Translation (NLT)
1 The Lord gave this message to Hosea son of Beeri during the years when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah, and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel. 2 When the Lord first began speaking to Israel through Hosea, he said to him, “Go and marry a prostitute, so that some of her children will be conceived in prostitution. This will illustrate how Israel has acted like a prostitute by turning against the Lord and worshiping other gods.” 3 So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she became pregnant and gave Hosea a son.
Hosea 3:1-3 New Living Translation (NLT)
3 Then the Lord said to me, “Go and love your wife again, even though she commits adultery with another lover. This will illustrate that the Lord still loves Israel, even though the people have turned to other gods and love to worship them.”2 So I bought her back for fifteen pieces of silver and five bushels of barley and a measure of wine. 3 Then I said to her, “You must live in my house for many days and stop your prostitution. During this time, you will not have sexual relations with anyone,
My Bedroom is my sanctuary, my bed is my place of rest, but is also a place of contemplation and it is a place of intimacy. I pray a lot in my bed, the only other person that goes to bed with me besides God is my husband, oh an occasionally our Pomeranian when she can’t find my daughter. I have learned that I can’t take everything into my bedroom, let alone my bed. So my husband and I have sanctified our room. It is funny that my mom can come in and get comfortable and find herself falling asleep, there is a peace there, because we intercede there and we share and meditate on the Word of God there and most days if I am not on the run I write the devotionals there. We don’t take things that take us away from God to bed with us. We don’t allow thoughts and behaviors that are contrary to God entering in there. If I am feeling some kind of way I go in the living room and pray until I feel a release and relief because I have consciously chosen not to carry things to bed with me that defile the sanctity of that environment.
Have you ever heard that saying you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas? The analogy is that what is on the dog will surely become what gets on you and potentially do you harm or damage. Often times we lie down with thoughts of anger, the Bible instructs us in Ephesians 4:26, “And “don’t sin by letting anger control you.” Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry,” If we let the sun gown down and we are filled with wrath and anger and we lie down with it, more often than not we are not getting up any better; even if we get up and have calmed down, in our subconscious mind there is a storm that is brewing that ultimately will rage against someone or something. We aren’t just taking our emotions to bed with us that are harmful and counter-productive, but we fall asleep with the television on not giving any thought to what is coming on and getting into our spirit. We lack the understanding that when we are sleep we are at our most vulnerable, our heart rate and respirations are slower and our body emits a substance that paralyzes us so that our body can enter into a recovery phase; we are not alert and we lack the ability to defend ourselves. If we are going to bed with worry, bitterness, gossip, lust, we are allowing these things to attack, not just our thinking and the way we process but the way we deal with others and live. What we lay down with often will develop an appetite in us that we are scarcely aware of.
The Word of God encourages us to mediate upon the Word of God upon our beds. Many of us are sleeping with everything but God because of what we have allowed His place of meditation to become. If we make an effort not to take things to bed with us that are not in God’s will and plan for us, we will not find ourselves, in a place of struggling with emotions and thoughts that we don’t have a clue where they came from. If we would apply the Word of God and ask God to protect our thoughts and if we choose to pull down every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, many of us would not just experience a better night’s sleep, but a better way living. Make sure what you lay down with is what you want to wake up with and become a part of who you are becoming and where God is taking you!
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