God Our Comforter

Isaiah 51:12--- I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

There is also comfort in mourning, because in the midst of mourning God gives a song.

His presence in our lives changes our mourning into song, and that song is a song of comfort.

This kind of comfort is the kind which enabled a devout Englishman to look at a deep dark hole in the ground where his home stood before the bombing and say, “I always did want a basement.

Now I can jolly well build another house like I always wanted.”

This kind of comfort is the kind which enabled a young minister’s wife in a church near us to teach her Sunday school class of girls on the very day of her husband’s funeral.

Her mourning was not the kind which had no hope, it was mourning of faith in the goodness and wisdom of God; it believed that our heavenly Father makes no mistakes.