Sufficient Sleep/Proper Assessments

Regarding trusting God's promises - I read this from Spurgeon this morning:

"I commend sufficient sleep to you, for the sake of your proper assessment of God and his promises."

It's been long known around the Krogh house that after 8 pm I can not trust my own evaluation of a difficult situation. I have learned not to make value judgments- I don't make assessments of God and his promises- when I am in need of sleep.

This year we have been blessed with a very quiet Christmas. All the kids are away at the in laws or friend's homes. Steve comes home today from having been in India for 2 weeks.

Should it be amazing to me how much more precious meditating on the incarnation has been because I have time to do so?

Please dear mom, whose hands and house are full, consider what you may NOT do so that you can get a good night's sleep and wake up to ponder, like Mary, all the truths and promises of Christmas in your heart. Here are a few to start with:

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."

John 3:16

"Whoever has seen me has seen the Father."

John 14:9

"For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one sourece. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers. . . . Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. . . . Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithfyl high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. "

Hebrew. 2:10,11,14,15, 17,18