What am I afraid of? Who do I fear?

I'd been in a bind with matters out of my control such as personal finance, projects that I manage, feeling misunderstood by those close to me and earlier this morning, just past mid night, I was in my room praying that I needed the LORD's grace as I was feeling very lost...  Isaiah 51 was comforting to read - a Call to trust the LORD!


⁹ Wake up, wake up, O Lord! Clothe yourself with strength!
      Flex your mighty right arm!
   Rouse yourself as in the days of old
      when you slew Egypt, the dragon of the Nile.
 ¹⁰ Are you not the same today,
      the one who dried up the sea,
   making a path of escape through the depths
      so that your people could cross over?


and the Lord answers,


 ¹¹ Those who have been ransomed by the Lord will return. {Are you ransomed by the blood of Jesus?}
      They will enter Jerusalem singing,
      crowned with everlasting joy.
   Sorrow and mourning will disappear,
      and they will be filled with joy and gladness.
 ¹² “I, yes I, am the one who comforts you.
      So why are you afraid of mere humans,
      who wither like the grass and disappear?
 ¹³ Yet you have forgotten the Lord, your Creator,
      the one who stretched out the sky like a canopy
      and laid the foundations of the earth.
   Will you remain in constant dread of human oppressors?
      Will you continue to fear the anger of your enemies?
   Where is their fury and anger now?
      It is gone!
 ¹⁴ Soon all you captives will be released!
      Imprisonment, starvation, and death will not be your fate!
 ¹⁵ For I am the Lord your God,
      who stirs up the sea, causing its waves to roar.
      My name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
 ¹⁶ And I have put my words in your mouth
      and hidden you safely in my hand.
   I stretched out the sky like a canopy
      and laid the foundations of the earth.
   I am the one who says to Israel,
      ‘You are my people!’”  {Are you his?}