“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort” (2 Corinthians 1:3). Everyone needs comforting. Everyone has periods of sadness. Everyone experiences troubles in life. Without comfort, some things would seem insurmountable (this word means that it would be impossible to overcome the problem or situation).
God created the world. He created humans. He knows exactly what we need. He knows best how to comfort us. We can pray to Him and ask for His help. He will providentially help every one of us as He sees best.
Every person will sin. Sin separates us from God, but God made a way for us to be cleaned of our sins – the scheme of redemption or plan of salvation. It is by obeying the scheme of redemption that we gain comfort from our sins and shortcomings. We learn the scheme of redemption from the Scriptures. We also learn about great people in the past who obeyed God and overcame their sins and shortcomings. By learning about them, and obeying like they obeyed, we gain comfort. “For whatever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope” (Romans 15:4).
Notice that in our first verse, God gives all comfort. If we look to Him, we can have that comfort. We cannot ignore God or His Word and have that comfort. To gain His comfort, we must do our part. We must actively look to Him. We must fully trust Him. We must believe that He gives comfort.
Study your Bible. Learn what you must do to gain the comfort of God. Help others to gain that comfort as well.
