We praise our God who always sends us two things: affliction and comfort. 1. Whenever God allows affliction to touch us, God provides comfort. (v.1-3a) 2. Why won't God prevent our affliction? (v.3b-4) God allows our affliction, so that we can better appreciate: a) that God's nature is to comfort, He constantly comforts us. (v.3b) b) that affliction comes with God's comfort, & the comfort is greater! (v.4) c) that we become channels of God's comfort to other sufferers! (v.4) 3. We each get the twin pack: both affliction and comfort through Christ. (v.5-7) How can Christians accept our sufferings? What sort of comforts does God give us? Is. 40:1, 51:12, 66:13 How can we be certain that God cares? Ps. 145:9, Eph. 3:13 What enables us to rejoice in our sufferings? Col. 1:24
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The Rev. Benjamin J. Snodgrass has been Pastor at Falls Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, since October, 2004. He graduated from Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and previously served at Grace Fellowship OPC in the Germantown area of...
