Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 273

The best words of comfort in Scripture

2nd February 1843

Oh Lord, best, most gracious, most loving Father! Which passages in the Holy Scriptures offer the surest and greatest comfort to a repentant sinner before You? Oh such things I, as a great sinner before You, would well experience, that I might always increase more and more in love toward You, oh Holy Father, therefore I saw Your great goodness, love, grace and mercy more and more and more! If it were Your holy will, You would indeed indicate such things to me, poor sinner!

[1] You are also more interested in comfort than humbling! But the earth is already so ordered that on it's ground, very few pure angels emerge. And so, of course, nothing else remains for Me but to console there where I Myself have humbled Myself.

[2] Behold, I strengthen the weak with sure comfort. But the strong I humble so that they become weak – for My living strengthening comfort. For comfort is already a grace of eternal life from Me!

[3] But that you and everyone may know the most comforting passages from the Scriptures, I will make them known to you. And so then listen:

[4] In the prophet Isaiah, chapter 54, from verse 1 to 17, especially from verse 6 to 10, is the greatest consolation for you and from verse 6 to 10 for every sinner.

[5] In the New Testament, however, note the passage where I have said: "Come to Me all who are weary and burdened. I will refresh you all." I sure think there can be no greater comfort for a repentant sinner. So heed this and you will have comfort for all eternity in the most sufficient quantity!

[6] Believe that it is so! I am a good shepherd, seek the lost sheep and prepare a great banquet for the lost son, so that the "righteous" will be angry about it – if only he comes to Me again. And no matter how ragged and torn he may be, that shall make no difference for Me – if only he, as I said, returns again!

[7] Understand such things, then, and you must have eternal consolation in this. For with Me it is indeed, indeed eternal, and will remain eternal. Amen.