Comfort

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 Comfort

We all need to be comfortable in our environment. We witness small agitating pests and largely uncontrollable situations. We are in days of worry, uncertainty, and distress. The world has proceeded through time to the point of the imminent destruction of all that “has been our stay.” The changes manifested affect health, economics, education, commerce, and government. Religion is overcrowded with infiltrated demonic modifiers; true word of God’s teaching is practically a thing of the past. Many factors develop from these withered foundations that make us uncomfortable; ill at ease!
There exists no outlet or remedy for many factors that have, in the past, been taken for granted. Thousands do not enjoy the contentment and security of a comfortable lifestyle. Lack of substance due to one's inability to afford proper personal care. Some choose to “turn a blind eye” and “go with the flow.” Maybe this is where we all are arriving. James Madison Brown wrote: “The Lamb was comfortable in his ignorance of what he did not choose to know.”
Some degree of physical comfort can be developed. However, mandated quarantine, masks, and social distancing all oppose the gaining of a state of comfort.
Diseases materialize that have not been known. Some have mutated to become non-treatable. Mobility is restricted and that’s the worst “no-no.” So then, what is the solution to deliver us from vexation and doubt? What is comfort? All want to be cozy, easy, restful, and snug. These words assist in "enjoying or providing a position of contentment and security," Actually, anything that encourages serenity, well-being, or complacency as well as physical ease is a comforter. Christians look above their tortured souls into the lives of others and try to bring them comfort.
The stated concept for comfort in both the Old and New Testaments is “encouragement.” Be there and assure “this too shall pass.” Console, help, give relief, cheer them, exhort them to fear not. In the Old Testament “naham” is most often translated "to comfort."
If we are to successfully strengthen, invigorate, cheer or enliven we must bring them into the light of God’s promises. That light excels in comforting the spirits of men. As far back as the beginning, we are instructed (Genesis 18:5). to strengthen the mind when depressed, to console to bring new vigor to the spirit. What then are we Christians to do? We are instructed to strengthen; to invigorate; to cheer or enliven.‎‎
Matthew 6:25 “Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? (Matthew 10:28) “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”
Know God, know peace. Amen. 05/18/21 BLL

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