Suffering & Affliction

The Pity of the Lord—the Comfort of the Afflicted

James 5:11

… There is always a restraining of affliction, even in the hour of severest trial. Those who are washed in the blood of Jesus shall never be drowned in …

A Mystery! Saints Sorrowing and Jesus Glad!

John 11:14-15

… Nor is affliction of small service to faith, when it exposes the weakness of the creature. This trial would show the apostles that they must not depend upon …

Patient Job and the Baffled Enemy

Job 1:22

… see him in the extreme of trial. If in patience he can possess his soul when all the arrows of affliction are wounding him, he is a man …

'That King Ahaz'

2 Chronicles 28:22

… this is that king Ahaz." If further proof were needed that trouble, affliction, sickness and familiarity with death necessarily softened the heart, then those people who have most …

'Our Light Affliction'

2 Corinthians 4:17

… would not have written about 'our light affliction.' He must have been in robust health and known nothing of sickness and pain." "Just so," says another, "and if …

The Barley Field on Fire

2 Samuel 14:29-31

… Some Christians have their trial in the shape of sickness: they drag about with them a diseased body all their lives; or they are suddenly cast upon a …

Marah; or, The Bitter Waters Sweetened

Exodus 15:23-25

… in the midst of all our grief and suffering, that Jesus Christ suffers with us. In all thine affliction, O member of the body, the Head is still …

The Trial of Your Faith

1 Peter 1:7

… For, believe me, there is no surer trial of our souls than the drawing near of God to our souls. Apart from any outward affliction, that searching thought …

A Tempted Savior—Our Best Succor

Hebrews 2:18

… doors to trial. Even our mercies, like roses, have their thorns. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of affliction. Our mountains …

For The Troubled

Psalm 88:7

… Child of God, never forget this—all that you are suffering of any sort, or kind, comes to you from the Divine hand! Truly, you say, "my affliction …

“All These Things”—A Sermon with Three Texts

Genesis 42:36

… She believes that when trial comes it shall work her good, and so the bitterness thereof is gone forever, swallowed up in victory. When the trial comes she …

Chastisement—Now And Afterward

Hebrews 12:11

… that though affliction seems to be one thing, it really is not what it seems to be. Understand that all that you can know about trial, by mere …

The Sheep Before the Shearers

… I have shown that the Lord measures and tempers our affliction, and sends the trial at the right time. I have shown you in many ways that it …

Gratitude for Deliverance from the Grave

Psalm 118:17

… the heart of His children and assure them in trial that they shall not be crushed—and in sickness that they shall not die. How do you understand …

God's People in the Furnace

Isaiah 48:10

… But if God takes me in hand, and puts me in the furnace of affliction, and melts me down by trial, then he can fashion me like unto …

Unabated Affection between Pastor and People

… The trial is hot, but it does not last long ; and there is herein much cause for gratitude. My last two attacks have been of this character. It …

The Bliss of the Glorified

Revelation 7:16

… Those that have had trial and suffering on earth are amongst those that have the bliss of heaven. Encourage yourselves, you poor and suffering ones. It is quite …

Beloved, and yet Afflicted

John 11:3

… he receiveth.’ Affliction of some sort is one of the marks of the true-born child of God, and it frequently happens that the trial takes the form …

Untrodden Ways

Joshua 3:4

… a foreboding of coming trial it is even more common and crushing. We have sometimes to look forward to a period of sickness. Already it may be the …

A Troubled Prayer

Psalm 25:18

… So here we may bring before God's notice not only our trial, but the inward anguish which the trial occasions us. I can understand, also, why David …

For the Sick and Afflicted

Job 34:31

… By a proud murmuring spirit we only bring upon ourselves trial upon trial; "the Lord resisteth the proud," and a high spirit challenges his opposition. Neither, dear friends …

Psalm 39

Psalm 39

… We are not told what the particular trial was, that each one may apply it to his own affliction, and because all are to be viewed in the …

Chastisement

Hebrews 12:5

… It is not every affliction that benefits the Christian; it is only a sanctified affliction, It is not every trial that purifies an heir of light it is …

Sweet Peace For Tried Believers

John 16:33

… Men might oppose Him, but He endured great contradiction of sinners against Himself with marvelous long-suffering. When His eager and foolish disciples would push Him forward, or …

Suffering And Reigning With Jesus

2 Timothy 2:12

… fortify them under their bodily affliction. Understand, O Man, that however you may degrade yourself, you are still under the yoke of suffering—the loftiest bow beneath it …

Psalm 88

Psalm 88

… The trial of parting with intimate friends is exceedingly painful. 3. In this, as indeed in every affliction, the best consolation is drawn from a belief in, and …

The Unknown Ways of Love

John 13:7

… So it is with you, my Brothers and Sisters, under your present trial and affliction. You cannot understand it now, but that does not make a pennyworth of …

Could He Not? Ah! But He Would Not

John 11:37

… were such gainers by the affliction that it proved His love that He did not deny them the benefit of the trial! Mark, again, if Lazarus had not …

Comforted and Comforting

2 Corinthians 1:3

… be affliction. You cannot pronounce the promise correctly in the ears of the afflicted unless you, yourself, have known its preciousness in your own hour of trial. It …

Jonah's Object-lessons

Jonah 4:6-8

… It is a sanctified trial that sanctifies the tried one, but trial itself—alone and by itself—might make men even worse than they are. Here, for instance …

A Sharp Knife for the Vine Branches

John 15:2

… Well, if I may say so, affliction is the handle of the knife—affliction is the grindstone that sharpens up the Word of God. Affliction is the dresser …

No Tears In Heaven

Revelation 7:17

… affliction! Sweet affliction!" And rightly so, since it yields such peaceable fruits of righteousness. Moreover, He can take every tear from our eyes in the time of trial …

"Jehovah-Rophi"

Exodus 15:26

… Three days without water is a severe trial when the burning sand is below and the blazing sky is above! Yet the Lord's people, in some way …

Psalm 41

Psalm 41

… Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. What, doth the Lord turn bed maker to his sick children? Herein is love indeed. Who would not consider …

A Bottle in the Smoke

Psalm 119:83

… Hence he says of himself, ‘I am become,’ by trouble and affliction, by trial and persecution, ‘like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy …

Refined, But Not With Silver

Isaiah 48:10

… trial and distress—and there He reveals Himself in His special Character as their God. Did He not say to Moses, "I have surely seen the affliction of …

Sickness and Prayer, Healing and Praise

Psalm 107:17-22

… You may get a little rest now and then in almost every other form of affliction, but you cannot get any rest when you are suffering from this …

Heart'S Ease

Psalm 112:7

… The day of sickness would not overtake us as a thief if we were wise enough to remember that we are dust. Frail flowers of the field, we …

The Christian’s Heaviness and Rejoicing

1 Peter 1:6

… Men will never become great in divinity until they become great in suffering. “Ah!” said Luther, “affliction is the best book in my library;” and let me add …

A Safe Prospective

Daniel 8:19

… is not natural for us to love affliction—we desire to reach the end and come forth from the trial. "At the time appointed the end shall be …