If Afflicted
(NASB) 2 Corinthians 1:6 “But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation…”

Our response to our afflictions can be used for others’ comfort and salvation.  What we project impacts the lives of others.

When followers of Christ are afflicted, it is for the glory of God!  How many times is this fact forgotten?

If comforted
(NASB) 2 Corinthians 4:15 “For all things are for your sakes, so that the grace which is spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God.”

If patiently enduring
(NASB) 2 Corinthians 1:6 “… or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer… ”

God’s peace in our circumstances is God’s comfort given to us. As followers of Christ we accept God’s comfort and we are not to waste our experience.
By accepting God’s comfort and peace we encourage others that God is at work and His peace and comfort are available to them as well.

Are you where God wants you?  Rejoice!  Receive God’s comfort.

If you do not have God’s peace – re-think and re-position where God wants you.  Pray; wait on God’s leading and timing.  God reveal’s His will through His word and godly counsel.  Then receive His peace.

Hope in God
(NASB) 2 Corinthians1:7 “and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.”

~ Take it to heart ~

If I am under pressure – that is affliction.

(NASB) 1 Peter 1:3 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”

Receiving God’s comfort in the pressures I experience means I am to patiently endure through hope in the living God.  I am to be confident of receiving God’s comfort because I have a living hope ~ the Lord Jesus Christ.