A.W. Tozer famously explained that:
“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about” (The Knowledge of the Holy, 1).
I would add that:
As biblical counselors the most important thing about us is our biblical view of God.
Today I’d like to talk about one aspect of Who God is—our Comforting Counselor. The Trinity’s comforting care for the suffering is the model and motivation behind biblical counselors providing comforting soul care.
Let’s Counsel like the Father of Compassion and the God of All Comfort
Paul uses the Greek word for “comfort” ten times in 2 Corinthians 1:3–7. Do you think comfort may be the theme of these verses?
He begins developing his theme by presenting a crystal clear image of God.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God” (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).
All comfort is ultimately sourced in God. The flip side of that is to say that worldly comfort—comfort
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