Devotional: Today You, Tomorrow Me

Job 29:25c, “I was like one who comforts mourners.”

In Job 29, Job was reminded of better days, when he says, “God watched over me.” Then he began reminiscing how God had blessed him with wealth and influence. In that season of blessings, Job recalled how he helped a lot of people and was thankful for the privilege of helping others. Prior to the death of his children, he was “like one who comforts mourners.” He comforted the grieving, the weak, the needy,… etc. But now, after suffering loss, he is the one in need of comfort. He wasn’t used to having people comfort him. He was used to providing comfort to others.

Such is life! Today you may be the comforter, yet tomorrow you may be in need of comfort. Death and grief frequently visit us all! We learn to give and receive comfort. At some point in time, everyone needs to be comforted. Today it may be you. Tomorrow it may be me.

I’m reminded of 2 Corinthians 1:4-5, “He comforts us in all our afflictions, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”