[The Love Of God] Comfort Sample

Servant Hearts Become Serving Hands

We were made to need comfort, but we were also made to give comfort to others. We have the capacity to give and receive comfort. Psalms 119:79 says, “Let those who fear you, those who know your decrees, turn to me.” Do you know what this means? That our misery becomes our ministry. Our servant hearts become hands that serve others.

God takes our pain; we go through it with the comfort that we receive from the love of God. God takes our misery and makes it our ministry. No one is better to care for somebody in a painful divorce than somebody who’s gone through a painful divorce and submitted it to the Lord. No one is better in grief than someone who has experienced grief—and has given it to the Lord, to care for a person who is grieving. No one is better at comforting someone going through suffering than the person that went through that suffering.

Queen Victoria, during her reign, heard of a lady that was a common laborer, just a peasant, who had lost her baby. Queen Victoria had experienced deep sorrow herself and she felt moved to express her sympathy. So she called on the bereaved woman – the grieving woman – one day, to spend some time with her. The lady came and spent time with the Queen. When the lady went back to her house, her neighbors were all excited waiting for her at her door, and asked her, “What did the Queen have to say?” And the grieving mom said this: “Nothing. She simply put her hands on mine and we silently wept together.” 

We know. Why? Because we have been there. We understand. We know what that is like. And we are going to share the comfort of that. So now we can let God use your misery to make it your ministry and let your servant heart become your serving hands. 

I pray that today you can receive the comforting love of God in your life in a way so deep that you feel the burning need and desire to share it with others. That you can be a comforter to others through the comfort that God gave you first. That you may be able to understand that every suffering you went through was not pointless, but it had a divine purpose.

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