Psalm 16:8 is a verse of intention. David wrote, “I have set the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.”

Where is your focus? When we focus on our circumstances, we lose sight of the Lord as our Abiding Presence.

Psalm 46:1 says, “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”

Our inner transformation is God’s purpose through our trials. Romans 8:28 says He is working everything for our good.

How? Why? Verse 29 says, “…to be conformed to the image of His Son…”

2 Corinthians 3:18 reveals the how. It says, “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

Setting Him before us eclipses the hard trials and adverse circumstances. They fade. We see Him only using everything in our lives to conform us to be more like Himself.