Monday, January 18, 2016
Murray, my prayers and concern for you at this time are with you in a special way. The believer in Christ is expected to get to know God better as he walks the pilgrim pathway. But there are things that he can learn only through suffering. One of those things is that He is the God of all comfort.
I had known throughout my ministry, of course, that God comforts His own. I had taught about the ministry of the Holy Spirit, our paraclete, who was sent by Christ to help us. And I had seen that the reading of the Bible brings solace to sorrowing hearts and peace to those in great turmoil.
My prayer for you, Murray is that you will experience God's comfort and that you will know daily the comfort of the Savior, the indwelling Holy Spirit, and the precious Word of God. May you also see that the Lord is truly the God of all comfort.
2 Corinthians 1:3-5King James Version (KJV)
"Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ." (2 Cor. 1:2-5)
