Anxious thoughts

Psalm 94:19 AMPC

In the multitude of my [anxious] thoughts within me, Your comforts cheer and delight my soul!

This verse was God's answer to a dreadful nightmare which troubled me just now in the dead of night.

The subconscious mind is a mysterious phenomenon - who can understand what lurks there?

We store and surpress all kinds of emotions tied to negative memories in life.

Dreams tend to bring these strong reactions to the surface.

As I tried to shake off the starkly startling dream, the verse above came to me, like an inner voice.

It hit me that, right here and now, in the middle of those anxious thoughts and feelings, the Holy Spirit comes to encourage and comfort me!

How immediate and appropriate is God's Word:

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12

My soul was indeed troubling me with the nightmare from the past, but the Word of God, cut through and divided those soulish feelings from my spirit which is alive in Jesus!

Even in the dead of night Jesus, the Word made flesh, is there to comfort me:

Psalm 121:2-3 AMPC

My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth. [3] He will not allow your foot to slip or to be moved; He Who keeps you will not slumber.

Psalm 94:22 AMPC

But the Lord has become my High Tower and Defence, and my God the Rock of my refuge.

Hallelujah! I really am cheered and comforted.