The LORD will go before you

At a sleepless night, I tossed and turned. I started to imagine how our life will be so different or difficult when my mom's gone next January. How long it is going to take Ethan to adapt to the day care center? How am I going to handle work and family at the same time? How am I going to manage my daily devotional time?... Then of course, my heart was sunken. My heart was focusing on things other than the LORD. I then prayed and then prayed, but the burden was still there. At 5:30am, I got up and knelt before the LORD asking HIM to show me HIS glory, and give me his words of comfort. I felt embassessed that I worry about trivial things like this. So many brothers and sisters have major life crisis, and I ... One thing I found out is: it doesn't matter how trivail things are, if they bother you and hinder you from seeing the glory of God, you will lose peace and joy. The Lord asked us to "trust HIM at all times, and pour out our hearts to him" (Psa 62:8). So I did, I told the LORD my worries, my concerns. When reading Isaiah 52, God touched my heart by assuring me "the LORD will go before you, the God of Isreal will be your rear guard." If we are walking in God's will, we know that HE will always go before us, and prepare the way for us. Why worry? "O my soul, why are you downcast? Why so disturbed within. Put your hope in God, and I will yet praise HIM." Let's lift up eyes to heaven and remove the veil from our face, and see God face to face.

I thank the LORD for HE is my strength, my refuge, and an ever-needed help in trouble.