“If
we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted,
it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same
sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just
as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.” 2
Corinthians 1:6-7
The part of this scripture that catches my attention is
when Paul says ‘it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance
of the same sufferings’. This hits me on a personal level. For those that have
known me for a while know that my family has been going through a long eight
year battle with my father’s disability. The company has stopped the only
income we had three or four times which resulted in us losing three homes,
having to move states and for a time be homeless. Long story short my family
has suffered a lot of the same suffering., especially my Dad. He suffers
physically every single day, and probably will for the rest of his life.
But all these sufferings haven’t beat us. We are all
still standing and enduring. Next month the battle will be over and the
reprieve is finally coming. Through all of this Christ has comforted us through
the battle and because of that we as a family have patiently endured. There
have been times of weakness where hope was dim, but we endured. We shared in sufferings
and in comfort. Now Paul was talking to the church at Corinth and he was
talking about them sharing in his sufferings and everything, but I still think
this can be applied to our own lives when it comes to our relationship with
Christ. Chris gives us patient endurance and his hope for us is firm because as
we share in sufferings, we share in the comfort we find in Him.
You might be going through your own storm right now. Be
encouraged that though you may suffer, you can find your comfort in Christ and
HE will give you the endurance to make it to the end. You can endure! There is
light at the end of the tunnel! Never lose hope, be comforted and ENDURE!
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