“Comfort From My Lips

Would Bring You Relief”

Then Job replied:

“I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you!

Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?

I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.

But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

Job 16:1-5

Job must have ached for a good friend.

How unlike Jesus. On the eve of His crucifixion He took time to comfort His disciples. He promised them the Holy Spirit, who would be with them forever. Then, just before He returned to His Father, He said, “I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

The One who died for us also walks with us, step by pain-staking step.

Sometimes the best way to be like Jesus

is to sit quietly with a hurting friend.

Our Daily Bread – July 7, 2015