Word for Today: Comfort
What or who is your source of comfort during difficult times, trials, hardships or those dark nights of the soul of loneliness, confusion and often times “depressed” like nights?
What comforts you?
We all have our vices and we all turn to someone or something during those times. Today, I challenge us to think and examine our own life to see what our comforts are?
• Synonyms of Comfort – soothe, console, reassure, relieve, calm, ease
• Definition of Comfort – to make physically comfortable; to aid, support or encourage; relief in affliction; a person or thing that gives consolation; a state of ease and satisfaction of bodily wants , with freedom from pain and anxiety
There are healthy comforts that we turn to in time of need to help ease our pain or help us to refocus. But even good and healthy things if not properly balanced or kept into perspective can turn into a “god” or an idol. God is awesome in that He gives us freedom and free choice. He has provided many things for us to serve as outlets and ways of expression but He never intended for those things to become The Source or The Outlet alone. He alone is our Comfort. In all that we do, it is to ultimately point us back to God at the end of the day.
If you enjoy shopping during stressful times or simply writing, at the end of it all, does it give God credit and glory? Examine yourself today. Do the things you do to bring you comfort, is it directed back to God and most importantly, does your heart re-connect with your Father at the end of it all?
God’s Word says this: “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows” I Corinthians 1:3-5
I believe God allows us to experience and go through difficult and uncomfortable times for one reason, so that we can be found comforted by Him. It is for intimacy and a love relationship that God allows all things to come about. And out of that intimacy and relationship, we flow into the lives of others.
What comforts you?
We all have our vices and we all turn to someone or something during those times. Today, I challenge us to think and examine our own life to see what our comforts are?
• Synonyms of Comfort – soothe, console, reassure, relieve, calm, ease
• Definition of Comfort – to make physically comfortable; to aid, support or encourage; relief in affliction; a person or thing that gives consolation; a state of ease and satisfaction of bodily wants , with freedom from pain and anxiety
There are healthy comforts that we turn to in time of need to help ease our pain or help us to refocus. But even good and healthy things if not properly balanced or kept into perspective can turn into a “god” or an idol. God is awesome in that He gives us freedom and free choice. He has provided many things for us to serve as outlets and ways of expression but He never intended for those things to become The Source or The Outlet alone. He alone is our Comfort. In all that we do, it is to ultimately point us back to God at the end of the day.
If you enjoy shopping during stressful times or simply writing, at the end of it all, does it give God credit and glory? Examine yourself today. Do the things you do to bring you comfort, is it directed back to God and most importantly, does your heart re-connect with your Father at the end of it all?
God’s Word says this: “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows” I Corinthians 1:3-5
I believe God allows us to experience and go through difficult and uncomfortable times for one reason, so that we can be found comforted by Him. It is for intimacy and a love relationship that God allows all things to come about. And out of that intimacy and relationship, we flow into the lives of others.
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