If you’ve missed our previous posts on comfort, God’s Comfort for Parents of Prodigals and Praise to the God of All Comfort. This post is mostly Bible verses, but as one reviewer commented, having biblical verses on comfort in one place can be extremely helpful. You might want to print this one off and post it where you can refer to it time and again.
Forms of Comfort
God’s Promises
Wishful thinking in a fallen world is just as likely to cultivate despair as it is to bring comfort: “Hope deferred makes the heart sick” (Proverbs 13:12). I’m not calling anyone to that. On the contrary, I’m calling us to still our fears and address our heartache with solid promises from God’s Word. This is a long list, but it’s an inspired one, far more helpful than my own words could ever be. For your own sake, please don’t skip through it (an editor once warned me, “almost nobody actually reads the Bible verses in a book,” but I hope he’s wrong, at least in this case):
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