My Comforter

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

Thomas Kelly, in his book “A Testament of Devotion”, writes the following on the Comforter:

“The sense of Presence! I have spoken of it as stealing on one unawares. It is recorded of John Wilhelm Rowntree that as he left a great physician’s office, where he had just been told that his advancing blindness could not be stayed, he stood by some railings for a few moments to collect himself when he “suddenly felt the love of God wrap him about as though a visible presence enfolded him and a joy filled him such as he had never known before.”

An amazing timeliness of the Invading Love, as the Everlasting stole about him in his sorrow. I cannot report such a timeliness of visitation, but only unpredictable arrivals and fading-out. But without doubt it is given to many of richer experience to find the comfort of the Eternal is watchfully given at their crises in time.”

God knows us, loves us, and is the Great Comforter who is always present in our sorrows.

Praise the Lord that He is a God of Comfort.

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

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