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Who Needs God’s Comfort?
Who needs God's comfort? Well, all of us need God's comfort at one time or another.
Matthew 5:4
Who needs God’s comfort? Well, all of us need God’s comfort at one time or another. When Jesus was talking in his Sermon on the Mount, he also mentioned comfort. But first he said in Matthew chapter five, verse four,
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. (Matthew 5:4)
You know, I don’t know of anybody who says I’m looking forward to a time when I get to mourn or grieve, because what’s attached with grieving? What’s usually a deadly accident or a very serious illness or some other tragedy that takes people away from those whom they love. And so it’s a very difficult thing. Jesus is not saying that God is the source of such tragedy or evil that cause us to grieve. It was the devil. He tempted Adam and Eve and they sinned. And once sin was in the world, it causes grief.
God is not the cause of grief. Rather, he is the source of all comfort. His goal is to save people for eternity so that they never have to grieve again. But now, for a time, God allows things to happen so that we realize the inadequacy of this world to provide what we really need, the comfort that we need.
Consider the mourning Israelites as they were enslaved down in Egypt. If they had not had such hardships, they probably would have wanted to stay there in the best land of Egypt, in Goshen. But instead they were motivated to move on to the Promised Land. And of course, from that, promised land is where the Savior would be born. So we see how God works good even through times of hardship. We Christians don’t only mourn with the tragedies of life. We mourn because of our own sin. Think of the apostle Peter, how he grieved after he denied knowing Jesus as his Savior.
We also grieve when we think of the harm that our sin has done. But we don’t grieve as those who have no hope. We know that we have a Savior. We can come to him, confess our sins, and receive his forgiveness of all our sins. Jesus became one of us to conquer sin and death. Yes, He allowed himself to be tempted, but he never sinned. He grieved at the grave of his friend Lazarus. But then he used his power to raise Lazarus from the dead.
Jesus’ innocent death paid for all the sins of the world. Everything that God held against us has been taken away. And even though now there’s still times when we grieve, we have problems. This world is not going to be perfect. We have a perfect Savior. And someday he will return and he will gather all people before him on that judgment day, separating evil from good forever. And we don’t have to worry about that day because as our Savior, he’s provided everything we need to prepare us for heaven.
And so during our time of life. We face our challenges, we face the problems of our own sin, but we also have a Savior. Let us always look to him for our comfort. Amen.
