Comfort For Disappointment Confusion and Sorrow

Emotions are gifts given to us by God that help us understand and respond to what is going on in our personal worlds and in our communities.  We are neither meant to ignore our feelings nor get stuck in them.

God’s plan for that?  His gift of his Holy Spirit, the Comforter to come alongside us to help us and to advocate on our behalf. 

Jesus said this to his friends shortly before His death:

But the fact of the matter is that it is best for you that I go away, for if I don’t, the Comforter won’t come. If I do, he will—for I will send him to you.  And when he has come he will convince the world of its sin, and of the availability of God’s goodness, and of deliverance from judgment.

John 16:7-8

We are meant to feel guilt and sorrow when we sin and the Holy Spirit will show that to us.  At the same time, He will also remind us of the availability of God’s goodness, and how we can escape condemnation and judgment and enter into forgiveness and joy.

And when our need for comfort comes because of circumstances beyond our control then God also gives us this good news:

What a wonderful God we have—he is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the source of every mercy, and the one who so wonderfully comforts and strengthens us in our hardships and trials. And why does he do this? So that when others are troubled, needing our sympathy and encouragement, we can pass on to them this same help and comfort God has given us

2 Corinthians 1:3-4

Loving God, thank You for the Holy Spirit, our Comforter.  We invite Him today into our disappointment, our confusion, our sorrow.  We allow You, Holy Spirit to help us make sense of what is going on and to bring us to a place of care and rest in the middle of it all.

Give us grace to let go of things needing to be the way we think they need to be and rather to offer all that we are feeling to You, trusting You to work for good in it all. We put ourselves and our emotions into Your caring hands and look for Your mercy for us in the middle of it all.

Thank You for sympathy, encouragement, comfort, and strength in every hardship and trial we face.  Amen

Let’s welcome God’s Holy Spirit to bring us comfort in whatever we are experiencing today.