Comfort

“My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life.” (Psalm 119:50)

Have you ever tried to comfort a child? Maybe that child has broken a favourite toy or lost a pet. You may explain the situation as logically as possible using simple words only to find that the child is still upset. The child doesn’t care about explanations but they care about promises. Promise the child that you will fix the toy or get a new pet and the child is comforted.

So it is with us. We don’t live on explanations but on promises. When the Psalmist suffered he didn’t get his comfort from the explanations regarding his suffering but from the promises of God. Maybe that is why Scripture has three hundred sixty five promises, one for each day of the year.

But when we have been comforted we are called to comfort others. Isaiah said, “Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.” Isaiah 40:1. Paul told the church at Corinth, “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 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.” 2 Corinthians 1:3,4

Do you need comfort today? Go to God’s Word and read His promises, they will bring you comfort.