Hey friends, welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Today's reading titled The God of All Comfort was written by Allison Kida.

Radamines was just a kitten when his owner dropped him off at an animal shelter thinking he was too

ill to recover. The kitten was nursed back to health and adopted by the vet. He then became a full-time

resident at the shelter and now spends his days comforting cats and dogs just out of surgery

or recovering from an illness through his warm presence

and gentle purr. That story is a small picture of what our loving God does for us and what we can do

for others in return. He cares for us in our sickness and struggles, and he soothes us with his

presence. The Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians

1, verse 3 calls our God the Father of Compassion and the God of all comfort. When we are discouraged,

depressed, or mistreated, he's there for us. When we turn to him in prayer, verse four says

he comforts us in all our troubles. But verse four doesn't end there. Paul, who had experienced

intense suffering, continues so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from

God. Our father comforts us, and when we've experienced his comfort, we're enabled to comfort

others. Our compassionate Savior, who suffered for us, is more than able to comfort us in our suffering and distress.

He helps us through our pain and equips us to do the same for others.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional scripture reading is from 2 Corinthians chapter 1 verses 3 through 7.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Compassion and the God of

all comfort,

who comforts us in all our troubles,

so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ,

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