Hannah Whitall Smith

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21.) The God of All Comfort 1 - Why This Book Has Been Written
      "My heart is inditing a good matter; I speak of the things which I have made touching the king." I was once talking on the subject of religion with an intelligent agnostic, whom I very much wished to influence, and after listening to me politely for a little while, he said, "Well, madam, all I have to say is this. If you Christians want to make ...read more

22.) The God of All Comfort 2 - What is His Name?
      "And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them?" The vital question of all ages and of every human heart is here expressed, "What is his name?" The whole fate of humanity ha ...read more

23.) The God of All Comfort 3 - The God Of All Comfort
      "Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulations, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God." Among all the names that reveal God, this, the "God of all comfort," see ...read more

24.) The God of All Comfort 4 - The Lord Our Shepherd
      "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." Perhaps no aspect in which the Lord reveals Himself to us is fuller of genuine comfort than the aspect set forth in the Twenty-third Psalm, and in its corresponding passage in the tenth chapter of John. The psalmist tells me that the Lord is my Shepherd, and the Lord Himself declares that He is the ...read more

25.) The God of All Comfort 5 - He Spake To Them Of The Father
      "They understood not that he spake to them of the Father." One of the most illuminating names of God is the one especially revealed by our Lord Jesus Christ, the name of Father. I say especially revealed by Christ, because, while God had been called throughout the ages by many other names, expressing other aspects of His character, Christ alone ...read more

26.) The God of All Comfort 6 - Jehovah
      "That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most High over all the earth." Among all the names of God perhaps the most comprehensive is the name Jehovah. Cruden describes this name as the incommunicable name of God. The word Jehovah means the self-existing One, the "I am"; and it is generally used as a direct revelation of ...read more

27.) The God of All Comfort 7 - "The Lord Is Good"
      "O taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man that trusteth in him." Have you ever asked yourself what you honestly think of God down at the bottom of your heart whether you believe Him to be a good God or a bad God? I dare say the question will shock you, and you will be horrified at the suggestion that you could by any possibility ...read more

28.) The God of All Comfort 8 - The Lord Our Dwelling Place
      "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations." The comfort or discomfort of our outward lives depends more largely upon the dwelling place of our bodies than upon almost any other material thing; and the comfort or discomfort of our inward life depends similarly upon the dwelling place of our souls. Our dwelling place is the pl ...read more

29.) The God of All Comfort 9 - Much More Versus Much Less
      "But where sin abounded grace did much more abound." In our preceding chapters we have been trying to learn something about the Lord and His great salvation; and now the vital point is, what view do we take of it all? A very great deal of the comfort or discomfort of our religious lives depends on the view we take of things. I do not mean of cou ...read more

30.) The God of All Comfort 10 - Self-Examination
      "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith." Probably no subject connected with the religious life has been the cause of more discomfort and suffering to tender consciences than has this subject of self-examination; and none has led more frequently to the language of "much less," which we found in our last chapter to be so great an obstacle ...read more

31.) The God of All Comfort 11 - Things That Cannot Be Shaken
      "And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain." After all we have been considering of the unfathomable love and care of God, it might seem to those, who do not understand the deepest ways of love, that no trials or hardness co ...read more

32.) The God of All Comfort 12 - A Word To The Wavering Ones
      "But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord." It would be difficult to find any one thing that produces more discomfort in the religious life than does a wavering faith. The figure given us by the ...read more

33.) The God of All Comfort 13 - Discouragement
      "The soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way." The church of Christ abounds with people who are "discouraged because of the way." Either inwardly or outwardly, and oftentimes both, things look all wrong, and there seems no hope of escape. Their souls faint in them, and their religious lives are full of discomfort and misery. T ...read more

34.) The God of All Comfort 14 - The Shout Of Faith
      "And when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up, every man straight before him." The shout of a steadfast faith is an experience that is in direct contrast to the moans of a wavering faith, and to the wails of discouraged hear ...read more

35.) The God of All Comfort 15 - Thanksgiving Versus Complaining
      "In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." Thanksgiving or complaining-these words express two contrastive attitudes of the souls of God's children in regard to His dealings with them; and they are more powerful than we are inclined to believe in furthering or frustrating His purposes of comfort and ...read more

36.) The God of All Comfort 16 - Conformed To The Image Of Christ
      "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." God's ultimate purpose in our creation was that we should finally be "conformed to the image of Christ." Christ was to be the firstborn among many brethren, and His brethren were to be like Him. All th ...read more