Comfort
The presence of Christ in our lives is not a guarantee for the absence of heartache.
Trouble will cross our paths from time to time...
Paul describes two kinds of people and their God.
Trouble will cross our paths from time to time...
Paul describes two kinds of people and their God.
God the Father is compassionate and ready to comfort.
His comfort is real and revitalising.
It enables us to pick ourselves up and not only keep going,
but help those who are in turn in need of comfort.
He sends comfort to people through other people.
His comfort is real and revitalising.
It enables us to pick ourselves up and not only keep going,
but help those who are in turn in need of comfort.
He sends comfort to people through other people.
Why is He able to do this?
Because He is the Father of our Lord Jesus!
He sent His Son into our midst to share in our sufferings to experience our humanity. Just as Jesus comforted Mary and Martha at the tomb of Lazarus and just as He wept with them, so He comforts us and weeps with us. The Father's sacrifice of his Son is the extent of His desire to be near us and to comfort us. The Son experienced separation from the Father so that we never have to.
Because He is the Father of our Lord Jesus!
He sent His Son into our midst to share in our sufferings to experience our humanity. Just as Jesus comforted Mary and Martha at the tomb of Lazarus and just as He wept with them, so He comforts us and weeps with us. The Father's sacrifice of his Son is the extent of His desire to be near us and to comfort us. The Son experienced separation from the Father so that we never have to.
As people we can be in need of comfort - in which case we need to draw near to a strong gracious Father who will help us through our trouble and help us to keep going - be humble enough to accept that God may send another person to help us through!!!
We can also be people who have received comfort - if this is the case let's be caring, sensitive, and God-revealing...
| 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. (2Corinthians1:3-5) |
