“Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses [God’s house!], and brethren [these brothers!], and sisters [these beloved sisters], and mothers [these mothers in Israel!], and children [faithful children, raised up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord!], and lands [beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth is Mt. Zion … the city of the great King], with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.” Mark 10:29-30 We have been drawn together here with cords of kindness by the putting forth by God of a glorious virtue or energy and calling each of these little ones into this fold.  We have here a spiritual house, made up of living stones which are “fitly framed together [and] groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord.” Ephesians 2:21 
 
This last week brought many comforts to many people, but those are only temporal comforts.
 
Examples of some comforts for some and discomfort for others
 
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His Majesty the Devil petitions our Father perpetually to throw us into these afflictions … with the vain expectation that our faith is grounded in our Godgranted earthly comforts and protections.  We should not see as isolated or unique to the patriarch, the events recorded in the first and second chapters of Job, to wit:   “Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. and the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.” Job 1:6-11 
 
Then there is the opposite of comfort:
Having a proper perspective on both the means and the end of these trials and afflictions — “though now for a season, if need be, [we] are in heaviness through manifold temptations” 1 Peter 1:6 — provides us with the spiritual strength to endure hardships as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.   “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.” Philippians 3:8-16 
 
Then you have those suffering from the discomfort of uncertainty:
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