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The God of All Comfort: Reflections in Isaiah
By: Roger Ellsworth
The prophecy of Isaiah may seem to be a strange and even difficult place from which to write a book about comfort, but the final twenty-seven chapters are rich beyond compare for those needing encouragement and help.
Written for the people of Israel while they were in captivity in Babylon, the prophecy was given to encourage them that things would not always be so difficult. Despite all their feelings to the contrary God had not abandoned them and the promises he had made to them in the past had not been rendered invalid by their disobedience. He loved his people and would be faithful to them.
Yet this is anything but a book about the past. The picture here is one with which we will all identify. Our world today can seem just like Babylon, with God’s people being assailed from all sides. There are times when our faith fails and our spirits flag. We wonder whether our failings are so great that God has left us to our own devices. We ask ourselves where our problems will end, and whether God knows what he is doing after all.
In The God of All Comfort Roger Ellsworth assures us that God knows exactly what he is doing and is in complete control of every situation, even when he appears not to be.
Written in the form of devotional readings, the author has selected from each of the final chapters of Isaiah a ‘nugget’ for daily meditation, concluding each ‘day’ with a series of questions or points to consider further. His desire is that we are not only comforted and encouraged by these passages, but that we will also be drawn closer to God in the discipline of daily reading and prayer to the one who loves and comforts us so much.
ISBN-13: 9780852345498
Publisher: Evangelical Press (2003)
Binding: Paperback
Weight: 0.8 lbs
Size: 8.5 x 5.0″
Pages: 276
Author: Ellsworth, Roger
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