MY COMFORTER

“O my Comforter in sorrow, my heart is faint within me.” – Jeremiah 8:18

 

In his book “Knowing God” author J.I. Packer writes: “What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it- that He knows me. I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him because He first knew me, and theirs is no moment when His eye is off me, His attention distracted from me, and no moment, therefore, when His care falters.

This is momentous knowledge. There is unspeakable comfort… in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge o me in love and watching over me for my good. There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love is utterly realistic; based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.”

 

God knows us, loves us, and is the Great Comforter who is always present in our sorrows. Today in prayer, praise the Lord that He is a God of Comfort.

 

“Most of our comforts grow up between our crosses.” – Edward Young

 

God’s Word: “For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.” – 2 Corinthians 1:5