“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we are comforted by God” (II Corinthians 1:3-4, ESV)
“We relieve our own suffering hears by turning the flood of grief upon some wheel of practical activity. An eminent minister of God who was under peculiar bitter trial, once said to me, ‘If I could not study and preach and work to the very uttermost, I should go crazy.’ The millstones grind upon themselves soon wear themselves away to powder. But useful occupation is not only a tonic, it is a sedative to the troubled spirit. Instead of looking in upon our own griefs until we magnify them, we should rather look at the sorrows of others, in order to lighten and lessen them” (14-15).
Theodore L. Cuyler, in his book, God’s Light On Dark Clouds, delivers a series of meditations on suffering, the Sovereignty of God in suffering, and our response to suffering. Cuyler was a man well-acquainted with suffering, having seen the death of three of his children.
Cuyler wrote these meditations to give hope to those who suffer – to comfort those as he had been comforted. Surely, one of the reasons we suffer is to be able to comfort others who suffer.
This is a wonderful book to prepare one who has not experienced suffering and to give guidance and hope to those going through suffering.
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