God of Comfort

Today marks 22 years since the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, better known as 911. As we remember the significance of this day and the people it has impacted as a result, we also turn our focus to remember the God of comfort.

In the Bible we read so many names of God, especially throughout the Psalms. But today, we recognize God as our comforter.

Many of us need that reminder today, not only those we remember with 911. But some of us are carrying deep pain…for ourselves…for others. We need the Comforter today.

2 Corinthians 1:3 says:

3 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort.

God is big and great and mighty but He is also personal and loving and the source of all comfort. He sees and hears and cares. No better is that personified than through Jesus.

I love the words of Jesus that he spoke in Matthew 11:28-30:

Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.”

We have a Savior who bears our burdens and gives us rest.

In Romans 8 we read

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

We have the Holy Spirit who hears our cries from the deepest part of our hearts…who sees and knows and has the words when we don’t.

God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit – loves us and knows our every need.

Heather Hanton
Media and Ministries Specialist
The Salvation Army Central Territory
Women’s Ministries Department