Everyone suffers loss in life. People we love die. Relationships are broken. We lose jobs. We lose our dreams. We experience stress, fear, shame, even guilt about things that we can’t control. But there’s a comfort beyond anything this world can give. Let God meet you in your pain.
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When life knocks us down, we desperately need someone to come alongside us, to pick us up, to comfort us, to give us hope, courage, strength to go on. We need someone to share our burdens, and make life just a little bit easier. Many times there is no one willing or able to do this.
But God will!

One of the greatest ways God comforts us is through his presence.

Corrie ten Boom and her sister were put in Ravensbruch concentration camp in northern Germany for helping Jewish people escape Holland during WW II.

The prisoners were subjected to grueling roll calls that could last for hours, often in the freezing cold, rain, or snow, while the guards daily abused prisoners. Corrie prayed to God for strength during these roll calls.

She later wrote, “Once, while we were on a roll call, a cruel guard kept us standing for a long, long time. Suddenly, a skylark began to sing in the sky, and all the prisoners looked up to listen to that bird’s song. As I looked at the bird, I saw the sky and thought of Psalms 103:11. [“For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him.”]
O love of God, how deep and great; far deeper than man’s deepest hate. God sent that skylark daily for three weeks, exactly during roll call, to turn our eyes away from the cruelty of man to the oceans of His love.”

This is from Each New Day, a daily devotional by Corrie ten Boom. See the link above.

There are thousands of examples of God revealing his presence to people in the darkest times in their lives.

I was in a hospital in Beijing in 1992. They thought I had a heart attack. I was alone. I had no money and, after 16 days, the doctors had no answers. But through it all I felt this amazing, unexpected peace – even when the intense pain in my chest hit me like a hammer.

God’s presence was His promise that He would carry me through this painful time in my life. It was such comfort, in the midst of searing chest pain, to feel His peace. Obviously, I survived, but only with His help and His comfort.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.