"Comfort, comfort my people," says your God. — Isaiah 40:1
The voice of God carries through the centuries, through the generations and reaches us where we are. God knows the comfort that we need.
This is not a frivolous thing that God does for you and me. Let me speak to those who might believe that the mature (or the macho) among us don’t need any of this silly little comfort: We do.
We need the comfort of God more than we need almost anything else. God’s comfort takes all of the unsettledness out of our souls and brings us peace. There is no strength in denying that we need to be comforted, but there is great strength in receiving that comfort from God.
When the tender, hurting places of our lives are given into God’s hands, there they are safe — and then we are safe. Remember how Jesus wept over Jerusalem. He longed to bring comfort, but its people would not receive His comfort. And so they were given over to their enemies.
Likewise, God is here to comfort us and to grant us great peace.
Be encouraged!
Dwight
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Victims of violent crimes and survivors of abuse are finding peace,
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