I am fortunate enough to remember that when the sky seems to be falling, as long as I was in the arms of my mom and dad, everything would be all right. In Korea where I grew up, we’d have such terrible thunderstorms in the middle of the night that I’d be scared stiff. But my mom or dad would lovingly embrace me and I’d fall back to sleep in their arms knowing that as long as they are there, I have nothing to be afraid of.

I thought that when I become an adult, I’d be scared of nothing. That, I wouldn’t need my parents to embrace me and protect me and whisper words, “Everything will be all right.” But I was wrong. There are times when I just want to retreat from the world and hide in the arms of God. Life becomes overwhelming and moves beyond me to handle.

And it’s not just the world that I want to retreat from. Oftentimes it’s myself that I want to retreat from! I don’t like who I am and I wish to be different, but the inability to change makes me dislike myself even more. Can I divorce myself??? Ever been there?

“Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.
I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.
I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched.
My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.”
Psalm 69:1-3

God is great enough to save me from the world AND from myself!

Go to God again and again to be saved, especially from yourself.

PH