I Can't Sleep!

I can't sleep! I've been awake since 3:00 am and I cannot get back to sleep. Maybe the room was too warm, or maybe it's the mixed nuts I ate for supper at 10:00 pm (wasn't hungry earlier and couldn't face chicken and rice at that late hour). Or maybe I had too many things on my mind. That's probably it. Just when I had given something over to the Lord to let Him handle it, sure enough something else would pop into my mind. UGH!!! Have you ever had a night like that? When you know that you don't need to worry and actually not suppose to worry but you still find yourself dwelling on things? I very seldom do have nights like that but tonight I have had one. Every time something would pop up I would think about it and pray about it and feel satisfied that I had seen the end of it, but then something else would come up and I would repeat the same process. Maybe the Lord just wanted me doing alot of praying tonight. I don't know.

The Bible tells us in Matthew 6:25-34 —–
25″Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
28″And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

I hope you didn't just skim those verses. I hope you took the time to allow them to sink into your soul and understanding so that you will have them with you in your memory banks when you need them. I hope it's a very long time before I have another sleepless night, but when I do I know that I can meditate on His Word and spend time with Him and He will give me the rest I need. I hope you have a blessed day!