.......There is something about comfort that cannot be fully realized until it is shared with someone else. It is that final step in the healing process of grief, disapointment, hurt, and loss. Until we share the comfort we have received, until we pass it on to another, our comfort is weak and shallow and limited. Comfort, pass it on! excert from Phil Ware message.
The comfort God provides through Christ is not just for our
private consumption
"God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make
us comforters." - John Henry Jowett (1817-1893)
-- Yes, our comfort is designed to be shared!
Here is a simple, rule-of-thumb guide for behavior: ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them. Add up God's Law and prophets and this is what you get.....Matthew 7 verse 12 MSG
Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others....Phillipians 2:1-4
Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus... Romans 15:5 (NKJV)
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