opportunity to display His loving-kindness, which, David declared, is better than anything else in life: “Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips will praise You” (Ps. 63:3). Believers never know God more intimately than when He comforts them in their suffering. Isaiah exults, “Shout for joy, O heavens! And rejoice, O earth! Break forth into joyful shouting, O mountains! For the Lord has comforted His people and will have compassion on His afflicted” (Isa. 49:13; cf. 51:12; 52:9;