Anxious thoughts, threatening opponents and impending danger all seem so much more real and insurmountable in the darkness of the night, so sleep doesn’t always come easy to human beings, even to believers. Psalms 3 and 4 both assert that the terrors of the night can be conquered through faith, however, and in psalm 4 the particular angle is the psalmist’s faith in light of the frustrating naysayers that surround him. They threaten to sap both his energy and his confidence, but the Lord can be his stay.
