Do you ever have trouble sleeping at night? Sometimes I am so tired at bedtime I just know when I fall into bed I'll be asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow. Then, I discover that sleep evades me and I lie there thinking about the events of the day or the week or the events coming up in the weeks ahead. Most of the time, they are good thoughts but occasionally, Satan creeps in and in his own sneaky way whispers all the bad things that he knows will keep me from sleep....
Worry.....that old five letter word that Satan loves and God tells us not to do.
"Will all your worries add a single moment to your life?" Matthew 6:27 (TLB)
I remember when I was in school, I would lie awake at night worrying about my classes the next day; is my homework okay; will I pass that test tomorrow, etc. I still occasionally dream I am back in high school and I can't get my locker open. Now as an adult, I can lie awake at night thinking about everything from the upcoming election to whether or not we have enough in savings to carry us through until God calls us home. If company is coming, I worry about whether my house is clean enough and what will they think if it isn't. What if illness strikes either of us? What will we do then?
There is a cure for worry and I need to keep telling myself that; Keeping our eyes focused on God. We need to remember that He is the one who has promised to look after us....He has our life planned out ever before we were in our mother's womb. So, even when times are difficult, we need to tell ourselves that if God cares about the lowly sparrow, He surely cares about us. And, no amount of worry is going to change a thing with God.
An anonymous quote declares: "Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night." Maybe if we busy our minds with meditating on the goodness of God and how we can serve Him, we'll have less mental energy to worry.
"Will all your worries add a single moment to your life?" Matthew 6:27 (TLB)
I remember when I was in school, I would lie awake at night worrying about my classes the next day; is my homework okay; will I pass that test tomorrow, etc. I still occasionally dream I am back in high school and I can't get my locker open. Now as an adult, I can lie awake at night thinking about everything from the upcoming election to whether or not we have enough in savings to carry us through until God calls us home. If company is coming, I worry about whether my house is clean enough and what will they think if it isn't. What if illness strikes either of us? What will we do then?
There is a cure for worry and I need to keep telling myself that; Keeping our eyes focused on God. We need to remember that He is the one who has promised to look after us....He has our life planned out ever before we were in our mother's womb. So, even when times are difficult, we need to tell ourselves that if God cares about the lowly sparrow, He surely cares about us. And, no amount of worry is going to change a thing with God.
An anonymous quote declares: "Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night." Maybe if we busy our minds with meditating on the goodness of God and how we can serve Him, we'll have less mental energy to worry.
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