Lesson 64: God’s Comfort

God comforts us in our trials and suffering. This doesn’t mean He takes away the suffering; instead He gives us the strength to endure. He does this to build faith, patience, and trust.

When we allow God to comfort us and as our strength grows, we can comfort others and help them find strength to deal with their circumstances. If the person is a believer, then we can say God is building patience in them. If not, we can say God is drawing them to Himself.

To share in the fellowship of Christ’s suffering is what we do as we suffer in our circumstances because of the sin that pervades this broken world. Christ suffered differently, in order that we may be freed from sin’s penalty.

At His second coming He will take away all suffering because He will restore creation to perfection, the way it once was.