REAL COMFORT
Today's reading: Job 21-22

"How can you comfort me? All your explanations are wrong!" Job 21:34 NLT

Maybe, as I have, you have stood in line at a funeral visitation and thought about what you would say to the grieving family.

Nothing sounded right.

Nothing sounded theological.

Nothing sounded like Hallmark's best.

Maybe, as I have, you've walked away from the casket beating yourself up for what you did say.

It didn't come out right.

It wasn't meant the way it sounded.

It sounded really ignorant when replayed in your mind.

It didn't go quite like you'd rehearsed.

How can we comfort without God's help? On our own we mess up, mis-speak and hurt with words that are meant with good intentions.

We need Him to guide our words of comfort and consolation.

We need Him to bridle our tongues as we counsel.

We need Him to engage all tactics required to keep our mouths from harming another.

Less we act and look like Job's friends.