Musing About Trials (becoming"able" to give comfort to others)

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 10:27am
II Cor. 1): God is the God of all comfort, and believe me, there are times of yearning for comfort when you go through a major trial like this. Many Scripture passages have been a comfort--too many to list here. (I will put them together at another time. I said to Cindy about both Intensive care and Acute Rehab.--They're both good places to get well, but not good places to live. I had a tube down my throat in Intensive care, so I couldn't drink, and I'll tell you I was desperately in need of comfort & dying for a drink of water. Funny as it may sound, I found myself taking comfort in an old cowboy song I had on my computer called, "Cool Water." (OK, I don't really know if that was from the Lord, but it comforted me.) In receiving comfort from God, we find that we gain the ability to comfort others (II Cor 1:4): "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."