The God of All Comfort
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The Bible states in 2 Corinthians 1:3-4:
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 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.”
These verses never really meant anything to me until I witnessed first-hand the compassion of a sweet brother and sister in the Lord who brought this passage to life. Their daughter, only in her 20’s, had been brutally murdered. My husband and I had just lost two of our young sons in a five-month period, and our pain was so intense that I could not even imagine losing an adult child by something so traumatic
.Even though years had gone by, how had they coped? How were we going to cope? Our young remaining child was not yet a year old and was struggling with health issues related to being a premature twin. Didn’t the Lord know that he needed siblings to help him maintain some sort of normalcy in his life? Did God really love us? If so, why had He allowed these things to happen? Did we have sin in our lives we had failed to deal with? Or was it perhaps because of all the horrible things I had done in my life… Was my past now coming back to haunt me causing this horrible pain for myself and my husband when he did not deserve it at all?
This is my story. It is a story of hope that no matter what you have done in your life, no matter how many wrongs you may have committed or selfish you have been; there is a personal active God pursuing you and inviting you into His life as you reach out to Him and learn to rest in His love and care.
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About the Book
The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 1:3–4 that God is the “Father of compassion and the God of all comfort.” Is that really true? If God really does love me, why did He allow me to go through such horrible times of distress and pain? Why couldn’t I have a “normal” life just like everyone else? After all, I wasn’t really that bad of a person, was I? Hadn’t I worked hard to turn my life around? Here my husband and I were now attending a good, Bible-teaching church, and I was learning more about Jesus and His love for me every day. We were finally ready to start a family after being married for ten years—I felt in my heart that I was now ready to become a mom. But then everything started to fall apart.
This book is to let you know that no matter what you are facing, God, our Heavenly Father, is always right beside us, and when we keep our eyes on Him and trust Him, He will see to it that we are brought to a place where life can make sense. Was this story something that I dreamed about as a little girl? Far from it! Yet I can honestly say that I am more at peace today than I have ever been in my life. The God of all comfort is always right here, just waiting for me to draw near to Him, and He is waiting for you as well.
About the Author
After living on the West Coast for most of our lives, my husband, Gary, and I moved to the Dallas area about three years ago. We are proud to now call Texas our home and are excited to see what God has in store for us here!