“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.” (2 Corinthians 1:3-7 NASB’95)
Paul addressed these words to “the church of God” and “all the saints” in a particular region, but these words can be applied to “the church of God” and “all the saints” throughout the world today. But we need to have a biblical understanding of who the church of God is, and who the saints of God are. For the biblical church is comprised of all people who are of genuine faith in Jesus Christ, who have died with Christ to sin, and who are now walking in fellowship with the Lord in obedience to his commands, in practice.
And the saints of God are all who are being made holy by God via their submission to God and their obedience to his commands. For to be holy means to be separate (unlike, different) from the world because we are being conformed by God to the likeness of character of Jesus Christ, by his Spirit, via our cooperation with God and with his work of grace in our lives. And his grace is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives until Jesus’ return.
Now, what is an affliction? It can be a tribulation, distress, or persecution. It can be something that causes you to feel stressed or that “hems you in,” like an internal pressure that may cause someone to feel confined, or without options, or with no way out. And it has to do with our life circumstances. And I would suggest that this is what the world, as a whole, is going through right now with all of the mass confusion that is being stirred up by the US president, it would appear, and definitely impacting American citizens.
Many people in America, and perhaps throughout the world, may now be concerned about their future and where all this mass confusion is going to end up, and how we will all be impacted by it. Many people put their trust in the US president, and so all or many of them may not be as “undone” as others who do not trust the man to be who he says he is and to do what is best for the people of America, and for the people of the world. And so I think many people right now are afraid of what tomorrow holds for them.
One thing all this confusion is doing, though, is it is turning the people in America, and perhaps in other nations, too, one against the other. We are being taught that there is a political right and a political left and that if we get on one side or the other that the outcome will be either good or bad. And then they pit us, one against the other, so that the people on one side are fighting with the people on the other side, even Christians now fighting with each other over what is a ruse, in reality, for the two sides = one.
The big push here in America, on the side of our present president, is to “make America great again.” But where in the Bible does it teach that? Where in the Scriptures are we being taught that our focus, as Christians, is to make an earthly kingdom “great again”? It does not! What are we supposed to be doing as Christians? We are supposed to be sharing the gospel of Christ (the truth, not the lies) with the people of the world to win them to faith in Jesus Christ so that they can die to sin and now serve and obey Him with their lives.
So, as Christians, we need to get our focus where it needs to be, which is on our Savior and on his plan and purpose for our lives, and on us walking in obedience to his commands and serving him with our lives in the way he has called each of us to serve and to obey him. And we need to be encouraging and comforting one another with the truth of God’s Word and not with worldly messages coming from men who, although some of them may profess faith in Jesus, may actually be serving Satan, instead. Time will tell.
For this word “comfort” is not all the feel good stuff, and it definitely does not include lying to one another, even if the lies make you feel better. For the word means “to exhort,” “to encourage,” “to urge,” “to beseech,” and “to entreat.” And it “refers to believers offering up evidence that stands up in God’s court” (source: Bible Hub). So this “comfort” involves speaking the truth to one another, in love, and saying to one another what we really need to hear, which is the truth, even if the truth is not pleasant.
So, it is not comforting to tell people that “everything will be okay” when it is not okay, and when it may end up in total disaster. For I believe that is where all this mass confusion is headed, and that the ultimate goal is to bring us all under the rule of “The Beast” (see Revelation 13:1-18). Could I be wrong? Surely! I am human. But I believe the Scriptures and I believe what the Lord has been teaching me and proving to me over again about who the government of the US serves, and it is not the people of the USA.
But whatever we are going through, and regardless of its ultimate end, we as Christians should be putting our faith in the Lord and we should not fear.
[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:1-51; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; 1 John 2:18-25; Jude 1:17-23; 2 Peter 2:1-22; 2 Peter 3:1-18; 1 Timothy 4:1-5; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]
For Our Nation
An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.
Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.
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The God of All Comfort
An Original Work / March 8, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
