Although many preachers today focus excessively on comfort to the point of creating a sense of commiseration in the listener by focusing all the pain on themselves, Thomas Brooks takes advantage of this situation to encourage Christians by reminding them that Christ is the one who deserves the glory. That is, although Christians are the ones who suffer, this suffering should be refocused on giving glory to Christ, and on knowing that there are legitimate and illegitimate reasons for suffering. And not only does he provide comfort, but he invites suffering. Yes, suffering, but the suffering that the Word itself exhorts us to live, a pain that comes from doing the will of Our Lord and Savior.
