"If He gives converting grace, He will also give comforting grace."
-- Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening
Those God converts, He also comforts. That is to imply that those who are converted will come across situations that require ongoing comfort. Conversion is itself a comfort, of course. It provides confidence of eternal salvation in light of one's total depravity. That is a great source of comfort. Yet, while salvation puts an end to that particular source of distress, it invites a whole host of other attendant stresses and difficulties.
Acts 14:22
Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
God provides ongoing comfort to those enduring the tribulations that come with their conversion.
Everything has problems. If you are unconverted, you have the kind of discomforts an uncoverted person has. However, if you are converted, you now have the kind of discomforts a converted person has. The difference being that the converted person has God to provide them comfort in addition to His provision of their conversion whereas the unconverted has no comfort from God in their unconversion or the problems that attend it.
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