THE GREATEST PROMISES OF COMFORT EVER GIVEN

These are days of tremendous challenges in all areas of our lives. The crises we are experiencing in our nation is impacting all of us. It is wonderful that we have God’s Word to inspire and strengthen us in difficult and discouraging times! Our Lord has given us some tremendous promises of comfort in John chapter 14.

The comfort of the presence of our Lord is the first promise I will lift from John 14 verse 18. He says, “I will come to you.” The reality of His presence was made possible by the cross. Christ came into the world by the way of the cradle. He will return to this world by way of the cloud, but he comes to you and me by the way of the cross. The benefits of presence involves satisfaction, security and separation. Because Jesus came we can be separated from our depression and defeats with His presence and power.

The comfort of prayer is another inspiring promise of our Lord in verse 14. “If you ask anything in my name, I will do it.” Our Lord shows us three important things in this promise…Asking, Action and Achievement. If we ask in His name, action is promised. He said “I will do it.” Achievement is offered through prayer.

The comfort of peace is wonderful to have in these days of division and strife. Verse 27 says, “Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you.” This peace is threefold. We can have the peace of reconciliation. Paul says in Ephesians 2:14 that “Christ is our peace…breaking down the middle wall of division between us.”

We can have the peace of righteousness. There is no disturbance in this peace. It is the kind of peace the world can not give. The peace of restfulness is involved in the words of our Lord when He says in verse 1, “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” We can have an untroubled heart in a troubled world!

The comfort of performance is involved in verse 12 when our Lord says, “The works that I do he will do also, and greater works than these he will do.” There is great comfort in knowing that our labors are not in vain, but can be multiplied. We can outwork what God has inworked in our soul. There are works of holiness, works of helpfulness and works of harmony.

Enjoying the comfort of my Lord!
Charles Kirby