Where is my comfort

As I ponder on the many circumstances the Lord has allowed to happen in my life, I realized that I’m so blessed, not just because I have what I have now, but because I was spared from a lot of painful situations that others were able to go through. But then again, as I empathize on their behalf, I can still feel the pain…

I don’t know if my words will be able to mend a broken heart, or sooth the pain of a wound of a broken family, or even uplift a person with shattered dreams, but one thing I know is true, despite the painful circumstance, the JESUS who loves us, knows what we are going through and has wide arms open for us to call on Him and seek rest and comfort.

I bet some of you are questioning, “If Jesus loves us so much, then why would He allow this to happen to me?!”… With all honesty, I do question that sometimes and get upset when things don’t happen the way I want it to. But as we look back… in the things that we did, did we even think of Jesus when we did it?! Or did we only think of pleasing ourselves with our actions?

I do believe God has an awesome plan for each of us, but to be able to follow it, we have to go to Him and seek Him first… the reason why, I believe, we get frustrated and blame God with the things that happen in our life is because we don’t realize that what happens to us is also the consequence of OUR OWN action and not because God planed that to happen. Our awesome God is to loving to allow us to bear pain more than what we can bear (I Corinthians 6:16) and though the situation we face maybe the painful consequence of our own action, He’s still there, and He doesn’t give up on us even if we’ve given up on ourselves.

For all of us who have endured pain and are enduring pain, we have COMFORT to lean on, and that’s Jesus. Don’t think Jesus doesn’t care because He does and if there was anybody on this world who could understand what it means to feel pain and loneliness, it would be Him… Remember, though things don’t happen the way we want it to, don’t feel hopeless because we have a heavenly Father to lean on to and by His grace and love, He’ll twist and turn those heartaches into conquered battlefields with triumphant victories that made us a better person today.

I Corinthians 12:9 says and I quote, “My grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in weakness.”… Always have faith in Him because He will always be faithful to you.