![]() ![]() We do not have to be anxious, but should take everything to God in prayer, and while we are praying we need to be thankful for what he has done and what he has given. While he knows the words we will speak before we ever say them and he knows even our thoughts, he wants us to tell him what is on our mind and what we are worried about. God comforts us through the Bible and also through prayer. Nothing in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God we have through Christ Jesus our Lord. Even though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we do not have to be afraid, because he promises to be with us. He is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. God tells us he is our refuge and strength and our help in time of trouble. He does not treat us as our sins deserve, and because of what Jesus Christ did on the cross, in paying the penalty for sin (which is separation from God), he has removed our penalty “as far as the east is from the west.” He loves those who belong to him, and he has compassion on us. We learn that God cares for us and that he will not leave us or forsake us and that his grace is sufficient for us. In the Bible, we find all sorts of promises we take to heart and try to keep in mind. God comforts us through the Bible, the Word of God. We see that God is the “Father of mercies” and the “God of all comfort” and that we are “comforted by God.” Comforted by God? How does he do this? There are three primary ways we are comforted by God in times of pain, in “our affliction.” ![]() Here is what we read there: “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.” In the first chapter of the apostle Paul’s second letter to the Christians who lived in Corinth, he wrote that God comforts his people. ![]()
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