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What it means
Comfort received becomes comfort given. God does not waste our suffering; He meets us in it, and what He gives there becomes something we can carry to others.
Paul opens his most personal letter by recalling a despair so deep he thought he would die. The comfort he describes is not theoretical.
Where it addresses you
You are in trouble and need comfort.
You wonder whether your suffering will ever be useful.
Found in Grief & Lament, Comfort, Suffering.