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Names of God – GOD OF ALL COMFORT – 214


My hope is that this series will offer my readers a chance to consider the names, characteristics and descriptions of our God in the Word.

The remaining Names of God in this series might be considered descriptors, or characteristics of the Lord. We have reviewed the three primary Names of God, along with nineteen compound Names of God in our previous posts. As we venture through these descriptors of our God, I hope we will recognize all the many characteristics of our God that we tend to take for granted.

The Word is truly rich with descriptions of the Living God, and this effort of searching in the Word was quite illuminating. He truly is the ultimate subject of the Word, and His revelation of self-descriptions, or the accolades offered Him by His priests, prophets, kings apostles and faithful truly is a blessing.

May the Name of the Lord be praised, and by thinking on His name, may you have a blessed day.

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GOD OF ALL COMFORT
 
2 Corinthians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
We will discuss the Father of Mercies in our next blog but for this post, lets take a minute to consider the God of all Comfort.  It is instructive to understand that Paul calls our God the God of all Comfort in the midst of a passage that speaks of affliction. 
 
Affliction. 

When I think of affliction, (the Greek term is thlipsis – refer to Patience – Associated with Suffering, and a second post Love Like Jesus – Enduring all Things) – I think of crushing, of squeezing, of unrelenting pressure.  It is in the context of pain and stress, pressure and trial, that Paul describes our God as the God of all Comfort.
 
For us in the modern world, we also experience stress and pressure.  Do we experience it differently than Paul and his team? I think it may depend on the reason we are experiencing the pressure.
 
Is it a pressure that is gained because of a burden God has placed on your life?  Is it a resistance to be faced from those who are against God, and because your are His child, against you?  Paul faced this pressure, even to the point of death as he mentions in v10.

2 Corinthians 1:10 He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.
 
Or is it a pressure that is caused because a need isn’t being met?  Or even worse, is it pressure created out of a desire to get ahead, to make a deal work, to orchestrate an outcome? 
 
May I suggest this is a different animal altogether.
 
Yet Paul says God is the the God of all Comfort.  I don’t think  there is a qualifier embedded in the “all” in this instance.  Now of course, the comfort in this instance of self afflicted stress comes from the hand of God in the midst of failure, regret and disappointment, but He is the God of all Comfort. 

It is His nature to care, to comfort those who are in trials.
  
2 Corinthians 1:6 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.
 
There is one additional caveat, in that the comfort comes through patiently enduring.  This tells me the comfort is not immediate, but that the trial may be an extended suffering, an extended trial with God seemingly absent in the trial. 
 
This is the patience of the saints.
 
For Paul, in all his trials for the gospel, he found comfort from the hand of God, even from the God of all Comfort.

We can rest in the loving hand of God, knowing that His heart is to comfort the afflicted, that though it may seemingly delay, we can rest assured His gentle care and comforting guidance will be provided at the right time and in the right way.

For our God is the God of all Comfort.

I would love to hear of your favorite name, characteristic or description of the Living God. Please leave me a comment, and I will include it in the list!

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9 responses to “Names of God – GOD OF ALL COMFORT – 214”

  3. Howdy again! The problem centers around the original sub-directy mapping being changed. Previously you ended the sub-directory for the particular day with a “/” which is correct. Now the mapping for the day ends with a “-“, which in effect, ends the possibility for multiple posts on that day, because the necessary sub-directory for each post, even if only one, is no longer there. AND it also messes up all the PREVIOUS links you provided which were accurate, such as “https://consideringthebible.com/2025/09/12/names-of-god/god-and-father-of-our-lord-jesus-christ-211/” If you now click on that old link, which was previously correct, it now comes up with a 404 error “No File Found”. Interesting what one wrong character can do (“-” versus “/”) when mapping sub-directories. Because it now produces an error of 404 – No File Found, when clicking on an old previous link, it shows where the problem is located, which is the original sub-directory “names-of-god ” mapping has inadvertently been changed. I just wanted you to be aware that this error in mapping also now affects all the old link mapping so that they will not load the appropriate sub-directory because it is no longer there. If you locate and correct the directory sub-directory mapping for “names-of-god” back to a “/” rather than the current “-” AND then correct each subsequent post in that particular sub-directory back to the now correct mapping, it will fix the current problem and also correct the side effect of your old correct link mappings to work again. Fortunately there are only a couple of posts. Blessings – Bruce

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  4. Howdy, the sub directory for the particular day, as in the 19th for example, is not loading. Your Home directory is OK, year and month sub-directories are both OK, but the individual days for individual posts on the 19th, as an example, are not loading. Consequently when one tries to load the post for the 19th of Sept, which is: https://consideringthebible.com/2025/09/19/names-of-god-god-of-all-comfort-214/ the sub-directory will not load, it just remains blank.

    I checked and in your previous posts for the “names-of-god” subdirectory, the names-of-god subdirectory ended with a “/”, which is correct, but now the sub-directory “names-of-god” sub-directory ends with a “-” which is not correct. Consequently the directory mapping that you are displaying now does not follow the previous correct mapping and because it doesn’t, the URL you give for the posting on the particular day, will not and cannot load, because it is does not agree with the original sub-directory mapping you previously correctly gave.

    If you try to load “https://consideringthebible.com/2025/09/19/” the actual post for the 19th will load and it is the 214 post. But if you click on the link for the 214 post, which is displayed at the top of the 214 post, it will NOT load. That is where your problem is. Hope this helps. – Bruce

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