Our love for God’s people ought to drive us to a purely-motivated loving service and care that goes even beyond what we think is possible.

When there are misunderstandings, hurt, and conflict we must seek to repair the problems without ever compromising our integrity before God.

We must be especially attuned to the state of our conscience, making sure it is rightly calibrated to God’s truth, and then faithfully followed by God’s grace.

We must employ the divinely sanctioned means of comfort modeled by the Apostle Paul to experience God’s strength and hope in the midst of difficult times.

If we are cognizant of the ways God helps us through our trials, we can then become skilled at helping other Christians through their seasons of suffering.

We should be prayerfully confident that God will orchestrate and apply comfort to our hearts as we draw near to him and each other in the midst of difficult times.