Be Still And Know

READ: 2 Corinthians 1:4 NLT 'He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us.' When God blesses our lives, he doesn’t want us to hug the blessings to ourselves. In this verse Paul makes it plain that God encourages us so that we are then stronger and can go out and encourage other people. God calls us to get involved in an eternal chain reaction. It works like this – God encourages us when we go through difficult times so that we can encourage others and then they, in turn, are made stronger and can go out and encourage yet other people – and so on, and so on. Isn’t that exciting? The experiences of your life are unique. No one has experienced life in exactly the way that you have. Your life is a bundle of joys and sorrows, successes and failures and through it all God has been with you and has given you his encouragement. As a result of this you have a story to tell and you can use it to put courage and