Names of God: Comforter

What's your comfort zone?

a cup of coffee, a blanket and a fire?

porch sitting?

food?

time with your spouse/people?

(Yes, those are my answers.)

When we seriously need to be comforted,

where do we go?

Who do we go to?

I know I am guilty of many times going to the

wrong thing or the wrong person.

When I do that, I always come away feeling

the opposite of comfort.

I feel empty or even worse, I feel rejected.

No matter who or what we go to just

does not have the capacity or ability to truly comfort us.

A cheeseburger will never understand how I feel.

And even as amazing as my spouse is at this very thing,

he is still not my source for complete comfort.

The truth is,

no one and nothing can satisfy like Jesus.

Outside of HIM, we will never get what we really need.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 says that 

our God is the God of ALL comfort and

that HE comforts us in ALL of our afflictions.

That tells me that no matter what I'm going through,

HE has the comfort that I need.

I just need to turn to HIM.

What could top comfort from the ONE who made us,

who knows us totally?

HE knows our heartaches and troubles,

HE offers no condemnation

(even when we've brought some of these

troubles on ourselves),

and HE alone knows what we need.

The Word says that we ARE going to share in HIS sufferings.

We all have hard things in our lives.

But we also have a GOD who doesn't leave us there.

HE chooses to bring comfort.

We have to choose to allow HIM to.

And that's not all.....

 after HE brings comfort to us

HE then uses us to comfort others.

We are able to give God's comfort to others!

What a privilege!!

Have you been comforted by others?

Maybe someone reached out to pray with you,

brought you flowers,

sent a text or called you.

How did it make you feel?

Have you passed that on to anyone else?

Will we be able to bring about their ultimate comfort? no

but we can point them to the ONE who can :)

Look around today,

see who could use some of God's comfort,

and let's allow HIM to use us to do just that.

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