Psalm 139

"If I say, 'Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light around me become night,'
even the darkness is not dark to you,
the night is as bright as the day,
for darkness is as light to you."
Psalm 139:11-12

When darkness comes upon us it seems like there is either the peace of sleep or the worry of anxiety that comes along with it. How we deal with the night says a lot about who we are and what we believe about God. The psalmist reminds us that God does not sleep and is not bound by the times of light and dark that we find ourselves constrained by. I've noticed a couple of things about my nights over the years. For most of my nights I sleep soundly not remembering dreams and feel rested when I awake. Then there are other nights when I wake up in the middle of the night and start chasing rabbit trails with my brain. The more my brain chases things the less likely I am to be able to go back to sleep. It is those nights that leave me anxious and worried about the future and present.
But I have also noticed that when I spend significant time focusing upon God during the day that those anxious nights are fewer and farther between. There are times it seems as if I need to just remember during the day who God is and who I am in God's eyes so that when I sleep the worries of the night don't have a chance against the peace of the day.