“WHERE TO GO FOR COMFORT” Every one who has walked from a grave of a family member knows the empty feeling that comes when we say goodbye to someone we love. The wonderful promise of Heaven offers us a hope for the future, but the pain of the present is still very much a reality. In those moments, and at other times during life when we are facing trials and obstacles, it is God’s grace that comes to comfort and strengthen us. When the prophet Nathan confronted King David over his sin with Bathsheba, David was told that the baby who would be born to them would not survive. When the baby was born, David fasted and prayed, but as God had said, the baby died. There is something instructive in David’s response in 2nd Samuel 12:20, “Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.” The servants were shocked that David had stopped mourning. Yet his faith in God’s goodness gave David hope for the future. He said, “But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.” (2 Samuel 12:23). David believed that God is Righteous which means all that God does, brings, or allows is right. David’s comfort came as he trusted in a righteous, holy God who is never taken by surprise when we go through trials, and He never forsakes His children. God has grace to bring us comfort in every situation that we face. Psalm 103:13 says, “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear Him.”
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 13:00:35 +0000
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