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Comfort
While going through an extreme trial or sorrow, we often wonder where God is and question whether He could have prevented our suffering. Martha was like that. “Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother had not died” (John 11:21). She must have thought, If only the Lord had come earlier things would have been different. We wouldn’t have had to have a funeral and all this weeping. Where was He when we really needed Him?
Whatever you are experiencing in your life, be assured of God’s love. He is not unaware of your pain. He desires to comfort you, and then to use you to comfort others who are going through similar circumstances. “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” (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).
To experience God’s love and comfort in a trial is to learn and know His heart in a very real way.
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