MERCY MULTIPLIED
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Verse for Today
2 Corinthians 1:3 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of all mercies and God of all comfort who comforts us in all our afflictions.
We are privileged to enjoy the highly personalized ministry of compassion that we receive from our Heavenly Father on a daily basis. He knows us and our situations and see us with compassion, mercy and love. It is His desire that His children do not go weary and without comfort in this world, as if they are orphans. He sends us His comfort in different ways. His presence goes with us. His Spirit and Word live in us. His love encompasses around us. His grace flows to us continuously like a never-ending stream. His messages come to us through His messengers, like Paul, who receive it from Him for us. He touches our lives through others around us who are touched by Him. He listens to our prayers and cries as a patient father. He has abundant resources in His reservoir to minister unto our every affliction. He deals with us in compassion and understands us even when we feel lonely and are rejected, forgotten and forsaken by those around us. When we go through afflictions of one kind or another, He knows all about it and comes to us to fill us with Him and touches us in a special way. He strengthens us to go through our situation so that we can come out of it stronger in our faith. Each of our situations is our opportunity to taste and see Him and His grace to us. So as we go through each of our our situations, we are able to learn to trust Him more and more to keep us going and face new situations with courage and confidence. When we have such a Heavenly Father who is full of compassion and comfort, there is no reason for us to live in misery, feeling that all hope is gone. He welcomes us to go to Him with all our pain and suffering and tell Him all about it. But even before we tell Him, He knows all about it and prepares ways for us to face every situation. But as His children, He expects us to tell Him about our situations and leave it with Him to sort out.
Dear friend, you and I are blessed with such a Heavenly Father who feeds the sparrows and all the other living creatures. We know that all His creation is working for us so that we can live comfortably. His power is made available for us to draw from, in order to use it for our needs so that we can live for His cause here on earth. When there are snags on our way to follow Him, we do not need to stop and fret about it, but submit it to the Father who helps us to walk through these hindrances to continue to walk towards our destination. He is with us in the trouble and affliction and will not leave us nor forsake us. He comforts us as we face tough situations and encourages us to go through it rather than retreat. In His mercy, He carries us through the situations and brings us stronger to face greater troubles in the future. Our life is thus a series of new situations which are known to the Father ahead of time. His mercy never runs dry and it is on us as a divine fountain. In sorrows, He is our comfort and in troubles, He is our shade and shield. Under His wings, we can find peace, love, joy and strength. These experiences equip us to live stronger day by day and make us ministers of His mercy and compassion for the sake of His other children who are going through such afflictions. Our experienced hands in the stream of seemingly never-ending troubles need to touch those who are weak in faith, and strengthen them to experience the strong hands of this same Father of all comforts. May we find comfort in this loving Father and turn around to become comforts to our co-sojourners?
2 Corinthians 1:5 - For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.
Thought for Today
When comfort is shared, it multiplies several folds and becomes a source of courage and strength to the weary souls around us.
Verse for Today
2 Corinthians 1:3 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of all mercies and God of all comfort who comforts us in all our afflictions.
We are privileged to enjoy the highly personalized ministry of compassion that we receive from our Heavenly Father on a daily basis. He knows us and our situations and see us with compassion, mercy and love. It is His desire that His children do not go weary and without comfort in this world, as if they are orphans. He sends us His comfort in different ways. His presence goes with us. His Spirit and Word live in us. His love encompasses around us. His grace flows to us continuously like a never-ending stream. His messages come to us through His messengers, like Paul, who receive it from Him for us. He touches our lives through others around us who are touched by Him. He listens to our prayers and cries as a patient father. He has abundant resources in His reservoir to minister unto our every affliction. He deals with us in compassion and understands us even when we feel lonely and are rejected, forgotten and forsaken by those around us. When we go through afflictions of one kind or another, He knows all about it and comes to us to fill us with Him and touches us in a special way. He strengthens us to go through our situation so that we can come out of it stronger in our faith. Each of our situations is our opportunity to taste and see Him and His grace to us. So as we go through each of our our situations, we are able to learn to trust Him more and more to keep us going and face new situations with courage and confidence. When we have such a Heavenly Father who is full of compassion and comfort, there is no reason for us to live in misery, feeling that all hope is gone. He welcomes us to go to Him with all our pain and suffering and tell Him all about it. But even before we tell Him, He knows all about it and prepares ways for us to face every situation. But as His children, He expects us to tell Him about our situations and leave it with Him to sort out.
Dear friend, you and I are blessed with such a Heavenly Father who feeds the sparrows and all the other living creatures. We know that all His creation is working for us so that we can live comfortably. His power is made available for us to draw from, in order to use it for our needs so that we can live for His cause here on earth. When there are snags on our way to follow Him, we do not need to stop and fret about it, but submit it to the Father who helps us to walk through these hindrances to continue to walk towards our destination. He is with us in the trouble and affliction and will not leave us nor forsake us. He comforts us as we face tough situations and encourages us to go through it rather than retreat. In His mercy, He carries us through the situations and brings us stronger to face greater troubles in the future. Our life is thus a series of new situations which are known to the Father ahead of time. His mercy never runs dry and it is on us as a divine fountain. In sorrows, He is our comfort and in troubles, He is our shade and shield. Under His wings, we can find peace, love, joy and strength. These experiences equip us to live stronger day by day and make us ministers of His mercy and compassion for the sake of His other children who are going through such afflictions. Our experienced hands in the stream of seemingly never-ending troubles need to touch those who are weak in faith, and strengthen them to experience the strong hands of this same Father of all comforts. May we find comfort in this loving Father and turn around to become comforts to our co-sojourners?
2 Corinthians 1:5 - For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.
Thought for Today
When comfort is shared, it multiplies several folds and becomes a source of courage and strength to the weary souls around us.
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