Words of Comfort

God's people are always in need of words of comfort. God knows that. For that reason He commands the church, and more specifically ministers of the gospel, "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem!" (Is. 40:1, 2a.) God says: "Don't speak harsh words to My people -- words of wrath and judgment. Those are words for the ungodly and wicked. Speak instead words of love and mercy and compassion. Speak words that will lift My people up. Speak words that will...