“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 Corinthians 1:3-6)
In a ministry strategic planning meeting today our Pastor, Ron Miller, shared this verse. As he shared, this verse hit me as though I had never heard it before with fresh perspective on how God uses even the painful experiences that we go through to then minister to the pain of others.