What does it mean to hang tight when times are tough? Are we to just grin and bear it? Or willfully push through the pain? Not at all.

Great comfort can be taken in this verse from one of David’s psalms, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me” (Psalms 23:4). God, Love, is with us, here and now, even in the midst of fear, disease, pain, or emotional turmoil. Love assures us, “As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem” (Isaiah 66:13). 

It’s clear from this verse that God’s comfort can be felt. But if it seems that we aren’t experiencing this divine comfort, what can we do? The teachings of Christian Science bring us right to the heart of the nature of God and our relation to Him, and that can be a very helpful place to start.