115. Not Comfortless
John 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
When the Son of God was on earth in human flesh with His disciples they were continually sensing a strong feeling of comfort and security. The promise of Jesus is that Strong Comfort will always be with them even when Jesus physically leaves them and ascends into the heavenly realm. He promises His disciples that He will come to them, but He will come to them with the presence of the Holy Spirit (the Spirit and Jesus are the same One God) in them. We believers are included among the disciples who can enjoy this promise.
When Jesus comes to live with us and in us there will be amazing comfort. That comfort is strengthened and secured every time we hear and believe the Gospel. Faith comes through hearing. Comfort comes with that receiving of the Good News. “Not comfortless” is an understated euphemism for Great Comfort. We need comfort, sometimes more than other times, all the time, and we can enjoy it constantly.
The ups and downs of daily life can give us the feeling and sense that we are alone without help and we don’t know where to turn or what to do. But this promise means that the comfortless feeling is a lie; so we need to hear the comfort of the Gospel, which is the truth. The devil will leave us comfortless; Jesus will never.