by Samantha Tongol-Verdaguer
“Comfort” is a word I say almost every day. On a daily basis I find myself needing comfort when various aches from my particular health challenge strike. What do I do? Well, sometimes I feel the Lord wanting me to reach out and contact my praying friends for prayer for healing. Then, sometimes I myself want to ask my praying friends to pray for me, but I don’t because I feel He has a different plan. And, sometimes I feel like the Lord wants me to contact my praying friends, not to mention anything about my need for healing, but to encourage them to praise God with me!When I do ask God for comfort, according to His will, sometimes He gives it fully, sometimes partially, but all the time He gives me strength to endure the discomfort. Always, and in different ways too! I definitely would rather skip the pain altogether. But sometimes that's not possible. So, thank you God for giving me strength to endure. Many people in the past have helped me with my shot, and some have prayed for me before I did my injection and some have not. Whether we pray, or not, does that affect my comfort? I don't think it will change the will of God, but I think He just wants to hear us pray to Him and maybe He wants to know we have faith that He can give us comfort, Lord wiling. To be honest, I cannot fully explain it, but I can just give my thoughts. And, my thoughts are since The Lord desires for us to have a personal relationship with Him, that would mean He would want us to have the faith in Him that He knows what's in our best interest. For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV)
I have come to realize that comfort means more than taking the pain way. For example, sometimes I get tightness in my legs and I just need to stretch them. The Lord can comfort me by totally taking the discomfort away and I praise God for that! Or the Lord may want to comfort me by getting my mind off the discomfort, either by making me fall asleep or through some other means, and I praise God for that too! Another example is when I ask God that my injection for the day wouldn’t hurt. Sometimes it doesn’t and sometimes it does, but I am comforted in knowing that the shots are temporary and I will have a glorified body and spend eternity with Jesus in Heaven after this life! I will never have to do my shot again! Now that is comfort!
I find great encouragement knowing that my God is “the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God” (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).
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