A Daily Devotional –Comfort – The Eternal Word (12)

A Daily Devotional –Comfort – The Eternal Word

Comment: In the middle of adventure, there can be suffering. Plans seem anchored in the LORD’s will so we trust Him and move forward. The destination of the adventure is complete and there you are! What next? Further plans to complete the adventure become unreachable, it is as if you are now alone. Communication is all but lost, informational plans cannot be acquired. (as these were on my cell phone). Okay, so what is going on you ask? There you are, your wife, luggage, a phone number, a cell phone that refuses to work and a foreign pay phone that does not like your credit card. Foreign money? Yes, but no coins.

Devotional: Anxiety, fear, emotional melt down and a few other serious thoughts travel through your mind. How did all this confusion happen and what is our next step? Thanks to the LORD God who never leaves or forsakes us; is the blessed God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ. He is the Father of mercies and God of all comfort. He comforts us in all our tribulation, (now get this) that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God – 2 Corinthians 1:3-4.

Yes, there were logical solutions to that most recent event in our trip twenty time zones from Connecticut and I am sure that others may have worked things out without calling on God for help, however there must be a time yet future when my wife and I will be able to provide godly comfort to someone in a confused state such as that of which we experienced in Palmerston North, New Zealand. There is no need to go into detail since after that moment in time, God provided a plan that never missed a step for the remaining six days of our stay.

Paul in his Second Epistle to the Corinthians is sincere when he says in 1 Corinthians 1:12-14 that his boasting of the events that brought him to write about the deliverance that God provided was to testify that his conscience was not to boast in fleshly wisdom, but in the simplicity and godly sincerity of his soul as he relied on the grace of God. What he explains is that this same simplicity and godly sincerity is abundant to anyone who will trust God’s Will at every moment in time.

He says that he is not writing anything other than what you can read and understand. As well, I do not write as though you do not understand (that is; understanding with spiritual knowledge we children of God have). However, the flesh often defaults to human efforts apart from the grace and will of God. This does not mean that I spiritualize everything! Certainly, to solve any problem (large or small) we need you use our intellect. Simply put, I and my wife did just that, but only after we filtered our intellect through the Will of God who never leaves us or forsakes us – Hebrews 13:5.