The definition of the word cozy is "giving a feeling of comfort, warmth, and relaxation." When I think cozy, I think a cool, rainy morning, sitting by a fire with a good book and a cup of coffee. It's suppose to be 93 here today, not conducive to sitting cozily by the fire. Good news is on it's way - the weather is suppose to turn completely around, with 60% chance of rain and a high of 55 on Saturday. Bring on the cozy!
IF we get that rain, I'll be so thankful. But what I'm really thankful for is a life that has been filled with warmth and comfort. I know this is not the case around the world and I don't take it for granted. I've always had a bed to sleep in, clothes and shoes (lots of shoes!) to wear, plenty of food to eat.
I'm thankful for the warmth that the love of friends and family bring. I don't have friends like Job's who were "miserable comforters." I'm thankful for a warm welcome when I go to church.
I'm thankful for Jesus, the Comforter, who said in Matthew 5:4, "Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted." I've felt that comfort in times of mourning. He also said in John 14:18, "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you."
2 Corinthians 1:4 says, "Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God." The Sermon Bible had this to say:
God brings His saints into pain, that they may be like what Christ was, and may be led to think of Him, not of themselves. Taught by our own pain, our own sorrow, nay, by our own sin, we shall have hearts and minds exercised for every service of love towards those who need it. We shall in our measure be comforters after the image of the Almighty, and that in all senses of the word—advocates, assistants, soothing aids. Our words of advice, our very manner, voice, and look, will be gentle and tranquillizing, as of those who have borne their cross after Christ. We shall not pass by His little ones rudely, as the world does. The voices of the widow and the orphan, the poor and the destitute, will at once reach our ears, however low they speak. Our hearts will open towards them, our words and deeds befriend them. The ruder passions of man’s nature, pride and anger, envy and strife, which so disorder the Church, these will be quelled and brought under in others by the earnestness and kindness of our admonition. Thus, instead of being the selfish creatures that we were by nature, grace, acting through suffering, tends to make us ready teachers and witnesses of truth to all men.
I'm thankful for a comfortable, cozy life, but I don't want to hoard those comforts, whether physical, spiritual, or emotional. There are hurting people everywhere that need that comfort.
