Comforting Thoughts!
"Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord
Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God
of all comfort."
2 Corinthians 1: 3
The nineteenth-century Irish pastor Philip Bennett Power
had a tender way of comforting those who were suffering
from pain or the various trials of life. He suggested three
axioms for strength and perseverance in difficult times:
(1) Get firmly convinced that God, God Himself,
God the Father, the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and our Father, is a God of comfort.
(2) Do not look anywhere else for your prime and
first
comfort. I do not deny that there is much
comfort in friends, in happy feelings, in books,
but I want you to gather in your thoughts and
feel that the only sure comfort is with God.
(3) Expect comfort from God.
The same God who helped Paul persevere through
tough times will help you. Ask Him to give you the
strength to keep going in any area of
life in which
you feel weariness and pain.
"If your Father will not comfort you, who will?
He is the most likely person to get comfort from;
therefore the proper person to go to for it."
Philip Bennett Power
