[Faith-talk] FW: [masterslist] Comforted To Comfort Others
Eric Calhoun
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Tue Jun 7 16:11:43 UTC 2011
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From: "Dean Masters" <dwmasters at earthlink.net>
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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
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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.
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