God wants you to overcome trials of life. So He offers a very real kind of comfort which comes from beyond our own human nature. It is a real comfort of His love from His own nature; His Holy Spirit.
RELEVANCE
God offers us the comfort of His Spirit by His amazing grace. It is a comfort not of the world, but of his peace, which transcends our circumstances of life. One of the primary reasons Jesus was crucified was to release the POWER of the Holy Spirit to be a residing and abiding source of His life within you! This was a crucial message He conveyed.
These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper (Comforter), the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you (John 14:25-27).
The apostle Paul spoke much on the subject of being comforted by God’s grace through the active power of the Holy Spirit.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ (2 Corinthians 1:3-5).
For this reason Paul encouraged believers to continuously “be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ…” (Ephesians 5:18-21).
We are continuously filled by the Holy Spirit when we exercise worship in spirit and truth and feed on God’s Word. Paul also referred to this as “stirring up the gift of God which is in you” (2 Timothy 1:6). I like to call it stoking the fire within.
REFLECT AND RELATE
Through the darkest of trials, ask God to reveal His greater purposes.
As much as you ask, with as equal determination, receive the goodness, grace and love of God—and His infilling of the Holy Spirit.
REFERENCES
1 Corinthians 1:6-7; 1 Corinthians 10:12-13