Give God's Comfort!
"For Demas has forsaken me….
Only Luke is with me. Get
Mark and bring him with you."
2 Timothy 4: 10-11
“Why?” is one of the most asked—or thought,
if not asked questions in the Christian experience.
When we go through difficult circumstances in our lives,
we don’t rebel against them as much as we want to know
why God has allowed them. What is the purpose behind
our pain or our problems?
There is one possible reason for every discomfort we experience:
So that we might comfort others in the same way God comforts us.
Paul describes God as the “God of all comfort” who comforts us in
our troubles “that we may be able to comfort those who are in any
trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by
God” (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).
He goes further: “Now if we are afflicted, it is for our
consolation [or comfort]” (verse 6). God lets us have
troubles and receive comfort so we can comfort other
people who need comfort.
The next time you are hurting, go to God for
comfort. Then ask Him, “Who can I comfort
with this same comfort?”
"My God, how excellent Thy grace,
whence all our hope and comfort
spring!"
Isaac Watts
