Six Conditions for Divine Comfort in Affliction

The Psalmist cries out in anguish: "When wilt thou comfort me?" Yet Elohim's answer comes not as delay but as divine instruction. Spurgeon identifies six sequential conditions that precede the comfort we desperately seek. First, your grief must answer its purpose—sorrow sanctified becomes a teacher. Second, you must believe; faith unlocks the very door to consolation. Third, you must leave sin; unrepented transgression erects a wall between the soul and mercy.…