Recently the grandmother of a dear friend of ours quietly passed away and one of the things it brought to mind was the sweet and amazing comfort our Great God brings during affliction and trials. In my readings and studying of these difficult times in a Believer's life, this is one of the greatest things that I have learned.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.
2 Corinthians 1:3-7 ESV
Praise God, we serve a Faithful Father, who not only causes us to share in Christ''s sufferings but also supplies us with the sweet comfort, just as abundantly. How merciful a Savior!
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV
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