{"id":191,"date":"2020-03-31T02:35:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T02:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2020-03-29T17:37:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T17:37:21","slug":"comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/comfort\/","title":{"rendered":"Comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Tuesday, March 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comfort\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. <strong>2 Corinthians 1:3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During his ministry the Apostle Paul had many pressing issues that challenged his faith. Yet, when we read his letters there\u2019s something he can\u2019t keep quiet about: God\u2019s comfort.<\/p>\n<p>Comfort, isn\u2019t it a lovely word. When we are troubled, God doesn\u2019t say, \u201cCheer up, it\u2019s not so bad\u201d or acts surprise \u201cThis can\u2019t be\u201d. He doesn\u2019t even say, \u201cOh dear, how awful!\u201d No, He says, \u201cCome here, let me put my arms round you and comfort you\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Just think about it, when a child is distressed, it\u2019s not words they need, but hugs. And our Father knows that this is just as true of us, His children. Of course, comforting words are good too; but they aren\u2019t much good without the hug. Yes, God will give us good counsel and good advice for our difficult circumstances. But, first of all, there\u2019s the hug.<\/p>\n<p>Today receive the God of all comfort.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em>All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ. Even when we are weighed down with troubles, it is for your comfort and salvation! For when we ourselves are comforted, we will certainly comfort you. Then you can patiently endure the same things we suffer. We are confident that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in the comfort God gives us<\/em>.\u2019 2 Corinthians 1:3-7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, March 31 Comfort\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. 2 Corinthians 1:3 During his ministry the Apostle Paul had many pressing issues that challenged his faith. Yet, when we read his letters there\u2019s something he can\u2019t keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}