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Lord, Comfort Me in Times of Trouble
very time I take off in an airplane on a gray, dreary, rainy day, I’m always amazed at how we can ?y right up through the dark wet clouds, so thick that we can’t see one thing out the window, and then suddenly rise above it all and have the ability to see for miles. Up there the sky is sunny, clear, and blue. I keep forgetting that no matter how bad the weather gets, it’s possible to rise above the storm to a place where everything is ?ne. Our spiritual and emotional lives are much the same. When the dark clouds of trial, struggle, grief, or suffering roll in and settle on us so thick that we can barely see ahead of us, it’s easy to forget there is a place of calm, light, clarity, and peace we can rise to. If we take God’s hand in those dif?cult times, He will lift us up above our circumstances to the place of comfort, warmth, and safety He has for us. One of my favorite names for the Holy Spirit is the Comforter (John 14:26 ASV). Just as we don’t have to beg the sun for light, we don’t have to beg the Holy Spirit for comfort either. He is comfort. We simply have to separate ourselves from anything that separates us from Him. We
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