Still thinking about the comfort of God, I came across these statements in my files:
“Why does God bring thunderclouds and disasters when we want green pastures and still waters? Bit by bit we find, behind the clouds, the Father’s feet; behind the lightning, an abiding day that has no night; behind the thunder, ‘a still small voice’ that comforts with a comfort that is unspeakable. The whole claim of the redemption of Jesus is that He can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human soul, not only hereafter, but here and now.” [Oswald Chambers]
“…our comfort is that Christ drank the dregs of the cup for us, and will succour us, so that our spirits may not utterly fail under that little taste of his displeasure which we may feel. He became not only a man but a curse, a man of sorrows, for us. He was broken that we should not be broken; he was troubled, that we should not be desperately troubled; he became a curse, that we should not be accursed. Whatever may be wished for in an all-sufficient comforter is all to be found in Christ:…Authority from the Father…Strength in himself…Wisdom…Willingness…” [Richard Sibbes]
“The forces of American culture are almost all designed to build the opposite worldview into our people’s minds. Maximize comfort, ease, and security. Avoid all choices that might bring discomfort, trouble, difficulty, pain, or suffering. Add this cultural force to our natural desire for immediate gratification and fleeting pleasures, and the combined power to undermine the superior satisfaction of the soul in the glory of God through suffering is huge.” [John Piper]
“For the comfort of those of you who are genuine Christians: As nothing can comfort a man that must go to hell at last, so nothing should deject a man that shall though many troubles at last reach heaven.” [John Flavel]
“If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a hundred enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.” [Robert Murray M’Cheyne]
Words of Grace 