When we hit our elbow, scrape our knee, or worse yet break a bone, in the moment we feel pain we think we might not bare.  Then after a few moments, several minutes, or sometimes hours, the pain passes.  Then after a few days, or weeks in some cases, the injury is healed and we are better.  Despite the discomfort we felt in the moment of the blow we ended up getting better in time.  How many times does something happen in our lives that isn’t a physical injury but an emotional injury and we forget that we will, in time, heal just as we do physically?  Sometimes in the moment of the discomfort we think that the pain will last forever, that we will never be the same, we will never heal.

However, despite the discomfort there is a source of healing for whatever discomfort we go through emotionally in our lives. 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 "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 have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows." (2 Cor 1:3-5 ) Emotional pain may not show, we can’t put a band-aid on it, stitch it, or cast it.  We can’t simply take a pill and make it go away.  It takes a little more effort then that sometimes.  We need to seek the source of the healing in a different way because it is not a physical source of healing just as the pain is not a physical source of pain.  Emotional and spiritual discomfort and pain requires an emotional and spiritual solution.  There is one source for this which will never fail us, one source that heals all these wounds, the God of all Comfort.  If we seek Christ, we can receive the comfort that overflows from Him into our lives.

Like physical wounds, emotional and spiritual wounds will take different amounts of time to heal.  We cannot expect an instant solution like a flash of lightening.  We must be consistent in our seeking, and we must also expect and be looking for what we are asking for.  Luke 11:9-10 tells us "So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." (Lk 11:9-10 )  If we know God is the God of all comfort, and we will be given what we ask for, we know if we ask for comfort when we need it He is capable and willing to give it to us.  One cannot expect to find and receive what one is not looking and asking for.  It is by asking that we receive.  So go today, ask for the comfort and healing you seek.  It is possible to go on despite the discomfort you currently face, however the Lord intends to, and will, give you what you need to heal.  It may take time, but if you are seeking the comfort you need from the God of all comfort, it will overflow into your life just as it is promised.