Comforted and Comforting

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Have you ever needed to be comforted? Have you ever comforted someone? Has God ever comforted you? Has God ever used you to comfort another?

We are comforted by God so that we can be comforting to others.

The Apostle Paul wrote the church in Corinth, saying, “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.” (2 Corinthians 1:3-4, ESV).

God is the God of comfort. God is the Father of all mercies. God comforts us in all our discomfort and turmoil. God comforts us so that we may be able to comfort those in pain.

We comfort others with the same comfort that God has lavished upon us in his mercy and grace so everyone may receive God’s comfort.

May we experience the comforting presence of God so that we might be a comforting presence for others.

A Collect for the Fourth Sunday of Epiphany: “O God, you know that we are set in the midst of many grave dangers, and because of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright: Grant that your strength and protection may support us in all dangers and carry us through every temptation; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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