[Faith-talk] FW: [masterslist] Comforted To Comfort Others

[Eric Calhoun]

Original Message: 
From: "Dean Masters" <dwmasters at earthlink.net>
To: "masters list" <masterslist at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [masterslist] Comforted To Comfort Others
Date: 
Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:02:29 -0400

Comforted to Comfort Others

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.
Romans 12:15

Recommended Reading
2 Cor. 1:3-5

When Mitch Albom heard that his favorite college professor was dying of
Lou 
Gehrig's disease, he visited him for the first time in  over 20 years. He

asked
Morrie, the professor, why he bothered to follow the news each day since
he 
was not going to be around to see how things turn out: "It's hard to 
explain,
Mitch," Morrie said. "Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who

suffer than I ever did before.... I feel their anguish as if it were my 
own."*


One of the reasons God lets us suffer in life is so we can understand the

suffering of others and be able to comfort them--to do unto them what we 
would
want others to do unto us. Paul lays out the progression of comfort in 
suffering by saying that God comforts us when we are hurting so we can 
comfort others
with the same comfort by which we were comforted (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).
When 
we suffer, we should receive the comfort of God and remember it so we can
replicate that comfort for another.

We don't have to pray for suffering--it will find us easily enough. But
we 
should pray for a spiritually-empathetic heart to feel the anguish of
others
and be prepared to comfort them as we ourselves would want to be
comforted.

*Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's 
Greatest Lessons (Broadway, 2002), p. 50.

Read-Thru-the-Bible
1 Kings 19:1-21:29

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