What is God's Providence When My Life is Broken? - A Nighttime Prayer

You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book. – Psalm 56:8 (NLT)

Please Pray:

Dear Triune God,

As I settle into this night, I bring You the things I still cannot make sense of. The heartbreaks that feel unfair. The wounds that have not healed. The questions about what You are doing in my life when I cannot see much good happening. Sometimes You feel absent or distant, and I don’t know how to trust You with what hurts this much.

I fear I cannot sleep.

Tonight, help me rest in the truth that evil will not have the final word. You are at work restoring what has been damaged, bringing good into places where evil has done its worst. I may not understand how You will redeem my pain, and I may not see the good You are bringing about tonight. But I trust Your larger story even when I cannot make sense of my circumstances.

Help me to sleep because this is where the healing work begins. Before I accomplish anything, before I fix anything, You are already at work in me. While I sleep, my body rests, my mind quiets, and Your Spirit continues to heal wounds, restore what has been damaged, and tend to places in my soul I cannot reach by trying harder. The darkness does not mean You are absent. You are close in the darkness.

I can surrender my need to make everything happen and trust that Your work of redemption continues while I am helpless and unaware and sleeping.

Thank You for being a God who is still at work, even when I cannot see it. Let hope be enough for tonight.

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.