Daily Devotional

On the same night Jesus would be betrayed, He turned to His frightened disciples and said, "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me." He did not pretend that the danger ahead of them was small or that fear was unreasonable.

Comfort here is not denial of the hard road coming; it is direction through it. Jesus gave His friends somewhere concrete to place their trust instead of simply telling them to stop worrying and hoping that would work. That same steady comfort is offered to us just as much as it was to them.