Conclusion of You Can Take Comfort-So Much Need for Comfort!

All these individuals, and millions of others, have indeed found a surpassing source of comfort and solace.  To see how you can benefit from that source, please read on. 

TO ALL of those yearning for solace, the Bible has words of comfort.  Little wonder, then, that The World Book Encyclopedia says that "countless people have turned to the Bible for comfort, hope, and guidance during times of trouble and uncertainty." Why?

Because the Bible is inspired by our Creator, "the God of all comfort," the One "who comforts us in all our tribulation." (2 Corinthians 1:3, 4) He is 'the God who supplies comfort.' (Romans 15:5) Jehovah has set the  example in providing a means of relief for all of us. He sent his only-begotten Son, Christ Jesus, to the earth to give us hope and consolation. Jesus taught: "God love the world so much that he gave his only begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life."  (1 John 3:16) The Bible describes Jehovah as the one "who daily carries the load for us, the true God of our salvation." (Psalm 68:19)  God-fearing humans can confidently say: "I have placed Jehovah in front of me constantly.  Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be made to totter." -Psalm 16:8.

Such Bible passage s show the deep love that Jehovah God has for us humans.  It becomes clear that  the has the heartfelt desire-as well as the ability-to provide abundant comfort and to ease our pain in times of distress.  "He is giving to the tired one power; and to the one without dynamic energy he makes full might abound.: (Isaiah 40:29) How, then, can we take comfort in Jehovah's strength? 

Next time: The Soothing Effect of Jehovah's Care

From the Watchtower magazine, 2000