Feeling God's comfort

[Anglewannabe]

How (if ever) have other’s felt God’s comfort.

Lately, whenever someone hurts me or rubs me the wrong way, no matter how angry I am at that person, I pray to God to help me forgive. However, sometimes, it feels like I am moving into the solution, without going through the process. IOW, it feels like my forgiveness is just an act with no sincerity and I still feel hurt.

I think back to being a kid and how when I use to cry (for whatever reason), the comfort my mom would show me. And I long for that comfort. Not that I expect my mom to comfort me like she use to, but I do wish I could have a good cry. I am sometimes scared I will get in an unending loop if I cry.

And as an adult, very few people would have it in them to be around me crying.

So all that to say, what practical steps can I take to feel God’s comfort? Or do I just need to accept I may not feel it until the next life?

Angie

 

[Irishmom2]

Angie,

I think maybe that Gods comfort is not like the comfort of a mom. It has the same outcome, but isn’t felt the same way. It is almost to me more intellectual. A mom’s comfort is felt through physical touch or spoken words we can hear. God’s comfort comes silently, without us even realizing He is there when He most certainly is. Sometimes we are able to realize the hand of God later on. He was our courage, our strength, our friend, or whatever comfort we needed from Him at the time.

When someone hurts me, I remind myself that only His love matters. When I am lonely, I know I am never alone. When I am misunderstood, I know He has seen all, and he understands.

That is how I feel God’s comfort.