comfort.

Comfort. It's a word that many use to describe being at peace in a place, or feeling peace and love after an event, or feeling at home.

Webster's defines comfort as "relief in affliction. a state of ease and satisfaction. to soothe, console, or reassure." 

I like all of those definitions and sometimes use that word way to often to describe my emotions or feelings. I think everyone likes being comforted or comfortable in a place or time. I often find myself looking for comfort in all the wrong places. Like for instance, my love for shopping. I have to say that I find comfort in finding something that you like and buying it. Some may call me materialistic, but a lot of the times its my comfort spot. Can I say that I am proud of it, no. Can I say that I am working on it, most of the time. I also find comfort in other people. I find myself a lot of the time turning to my friends, family, or fiancé to give me that comfort that I need. Now I know God places people in our lives to be the physical form of comfort that we need, through hugs or words, that he can't give us. But I think it becomes a problem for me when they are the only ones I turn to. Am I proud of it, no. Am I working on it, yes.

Burton sent me this scripture this morning, and I have to say the only thing I could think about was comfort. Comfort not in things, or people, but a Father who longs to hold us. He knows everything that is going on in our lives, down to the things we are about to say. Some may say thats creepy, but I think its comforting. To always have someone on my side, no matter where I am or what I am about to do. I have someone who is going to be there for me. To comfort me when things don't go as I planned, or when I am lonely, or when I just had the best day of my life. We have the Almighty comforter. 

"O Lord, you have searched me, and you know me. You know when I sit down and when I rise, you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all of my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord. You hem me in-behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; If I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; and your works are wonderful, I know that full well. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of the sand. When I awake, I am still with you. Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." Psalm 139

Where are you finding for comfort today?