Our Daily Bread -- Pass It On

[Bro. Bill]

READ: 2 Corinthians 1:3-7

As you are partakers of the sufferings, so also you will partake of the consolation. —2 Corinthians 1:7

I’ve noticed through the years that those who have suffered are quick to comfort other sufferers. When a young couple suffers the loss of a child, another couple who also lost a child in the past asks if they can help. If a couple loses their main income, almost immediately another couple steps forward to offer their aid, remembering their own journey through foreclosure years earlier. Again and again we see the body of Christ supporting and encouraging one another. These Christians have learned that they can use the trials they’ve been through to reach out to others going through similar difficulties.

Have you been sick? Lost a loved one? Been imprisoned? Unfairly treated? In all of our trials, God promises to bring something good out of even our darkest moments (James 1:2-4). One key way this takes place is when we share the comfort He offered us with those who are now going through trials.

As Paul points out in 2 Corinthians 1:3-7, we are comforted by a Savior who knows our suffering, and we honor Him when we pass His comfort on to still others.

May we never leave someone to suffer alone. If we know the trail another is on, God will help us to guide that person to His presence—the surest comfort of all. —Randy Kilgore

Dear Lord, help us to step forward when
others around us are suffering trials similar to
what we’ve been through. Enable us to be a
comfort, as You have been to us in the past.

God comforts us so that we can comfort others.

Bible in a year: Psalms 60-62; Romans 5
From our daily bread ministries

[Bro. Bill]

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[focushunter]

amen

[El Viejo]

So true, Bill. Thanks for sharing that. I used to wonder why God took my mother at the young age of 65. She died of cancer, and unknown to me there was a widow woman living a few miles away who would die of the same thing, and she needed someone strong beside her during that time. That someone would be my dad. After my mom died, my dad married Louise, a family friend from before I was even thought about. They were happily married for a number of years, until Louise came down with a cancer similar to what my mom had died from. My dad knew what Louise most needed, and was able to give that to her based on what he had done for my mother. We don't always know or understand what God is doing in our lives or in the lives of others. We can only trust Him because only He can see the big picture from start to finish.

God bless you, Bill for this ministry you provide to the GS.

[NibletGillispie]

Thank you