You have put gladness in my heart, More than in the season that their grain and wine increased. I will both lie down in peace, and sleep; For You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.

Is there such a thing as fear of anxiety? Can I be afraid of being afraid? The childhood fear of darkness? Not that it is dark, but that I couldn't see what was there. I was the older brother whose responsibility was to introduce the younger siblings to fear of the dark.

Now, one of the ways of worshiping the LORD, is to trust Him in all the darks; to lie down in peace and sleep. Lying down in peace is not a problem, or maybe it is the problem for it is in the quiet of the night that my mind starts to work. Or is this the Holy Spirit, having cleared out the junk, is enabling me to see solutions that escaped me during mutter and clutter of the day?

Is not one of the forms that worship takes is the conversion of distrust of the unknown into trust of the known, the LORD, God, the Almighty?

Another point that is becoming evident is that these Psalms are emphasizing that worship does not come out of a spigot that is turned on at 11 AM, Sunday morning and off at 12:30 PM in the afternoon. Nor is it an emotion that is reserved for the LORD's Day. No, it is a state of relationship with the LORD, God, the Almighty that His children are called to live in 7/24. No recess! Just living in the Joy of the LORD!

Reading

Morning Psalm 80, Noon Psalm 119:129-136, Evening Psalm 20