Comfort

As we have studied Isaiah this year at BSF, the way God comforts his people has been a theme. Certainly throughout the Bible it shows up many times.  The dictionary defines comfort as: (1) a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment, (2) assistance, or (3) satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing.


What a blessing to know that God considers it His responsibility and even His pleasure to provide us with such a feeling of freedom and comfort and satisfaction!


Here are a few more places this theme pops up:


May your unfailing love be my comfort, according to your promise to your servant. Psalm 119:76


Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Matthew 5:4


For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory. 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12


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 receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort. 2 Corinthians 1:3-7


God comforts us so that we can comfort others!
"We love because he first loved us." 1 John 4:19