Comfort

Anyone needing comfort tonight? I know of so many people who are in pain both physically, emotionally, and spiritually tonight. Those who I love and hold dear to my heart are dealing with so much tonight. From physical illness to spiritual bondage. My heart has been so heavy for those that I love seem to be hurting right now. When someone I love hurts I hurt too. Just the way that GOD made me. But this reminded me of how much it must really hurt the LORD when we suffer and knowing it is for our good. Sometimes those hardships are not just for our good but for someone else's good. Now that does not make it easier by any means but sometimes for me to be reminded of that truth that when we are comforted by the LORD he really helps us in our time of trouble even when we don't see it at the time.
The word “comfort” means to stand beside a person, encouraging and helping him or her in a time of trouble. God supremely fulfills this role, for he sends his children the Holy Spirit for them. John 14:16 says Paul has learned in his many troubles that no suffering, however severe, can separate believers from the care and compassion of their heavenly father. Romans 8: 35-39 says, " Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:"For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Sometimes, God occasionally permits troubles in our lives in order that we, having experienced his comfort, may comfort others in troubles.
2 Corinthians 1:4 says, "who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God".