Saturday Writing...5/9/20..."COMFORT"

Good Morning,

The theme for today is the need that people have for comfort. To define comfort one might say that this is the thing that helps us to deal with challenges, sadness and loss.  There are great sources of comfort. We could agree that God is an important source. However, God has given us written words of comfort in the Psalms in the Bible.  Carol wrote, "There are Psalms for everything you need.  God holds out comfort no matter what you need, written there in His Word by people just like you and me who found the answer in God. " 

Have a blessed weelend.
Carol Steficek
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Today's Devotional
"COMFORT" 

Written by 

Carol Steficek

"Comfort, comfort my people,
says your God."
Isaiah 40:1

Every one of us has needed comfort at some time in our lives.  It could be from some major event or something of less magnitude but nevertheless important to us.  Sometimes we even get an immediate degree of comfort from a parent, spouse, friend, or someone who will listen and understand.  

However, when something is really devastating for us and we have no earthly person to turn to, we must find comfort elsewhere.  Then we may be willing to turn to God.  God is the One who holds out true and lasting comfort to us when the world falls apart and fails us.  How do we find this comfort?  One of my favorite places is the book of Psalms in the Bible.  

There are 150 Psalms which speak to any mood or need a person may have.  Sometimes we need the comfort of returning to God after we know we have sinned, when we can't seem to find our way and need direction from being lost, or when we need healing.  There are Psalms for everything you need.  God holds out comfort no matter what you need, written there in His Word by people just like you and me who found the answer in God.  "Comfort my people."

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"COMFORT, COMFORT ALL MY PEOPLE"

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