Suffering & Affliction

The Chief Physician and the Centurion's Servant

Matthew 8:7

… This captain's sympathy with his suffering valet was shown by practical action. He did not say that he felt for him and then go off to the …

The Best Christmas Fare

Psalm 119:103

… Unless Your Law had been my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction. Let us remember how God's Word has kept some of us alive …

Christ's Negative and Positive Prayer

John 17:15

… Do not seek to be screened from affliction, but plead that you may never be driven to sin by your affliction. You need not even pray that you …

First Healing and then Service

Matthew 8:14

… However good a man may be, he will not escape trial in the flesh. You may have a house full of sanctity and full of sickness at the …

Our Thoughts About God's Thoughts

Psalm 139:17

… Lies not all my hope, my very Heaven, that way? The glances of Your eyes, are they not the very medicine that shall cure my soul-sickness, or …

Morning, August 20

2Sa 23:1

… his children were his greatest affliction. The temptations of poverty and wealth, of honour and reproach, of health and weakness, all tried their power upon him. He had …

Morning, November 11

De 33:27

… trial from without . Every earthly prop is cut away. What then? Still underneath him are “the everlasting arms.” He cannot fall so deep in distress and affliction but …

Morning, March 1

Song 4:16

… Well may we court trial or even death itself if we shall thereby be aided to make glad Immanuel’s heart. O that our heart were crushed to …

Saved In Hope

Romans 8:24

… When Satan would buffet us; when temptation would overcome us; when affliction would wear us down; when doubts would torment us, let us bear the temporary trial with …

A New Song For New Hearts

Isaiah 12:1

… Your anger is turned away, and You comfort us." If this is the meaning of it, it is an instance of sanctified affliction—and it is a lesson …

God's Thoughts Of Peace and Our Expected End

Jeremiah 29:11

… Every affliction is timed and measured and every comfort is sent with a loving thoughtfulness which makes it precious in a sevenfold degree. O Believer, the great thoughtfulness …

Joyful Transformations

Isaiah 42:16

… And considering that Divine Grace is always proportioned to the trial, I think it were wise to choose the trial for the sake of obtaining the Grace which …

The Profit Of Godliness In This Life

1 Timothy 4:8

… And we have also the two great branches of suffering with Christ and serving with Christ, loaded with the fruits of the Spirit. Let us treasure up these …

The Ministry Of Gratitude

Luke 4:39

… wise Father is too great to deprive us of the saved benefits of affliction. Sickness came to that house not as an enemy but as a friend, for …

Certain Singular Subjects

Joshua 24:4

… To see wickedness on a throne and righteousness in a dungeon, pride enshrined in honor and holiness rolled in the kennel is a serious trial of our confidence …

Why Is Faith So Feeble?

Mark 4:40

… When trial comes, the heap from the threshing floor becomes very small beneath the influence of the winnowing fan. After a day of calm service with Jesus, a …

The Faithfulness of Jesus

John 13:1

… It was no small trial to the Savior's affection when Peter took him and began to rebuke him. Peter rebuking his Master! Surely thy Lord will have …

'No Root in Themselves'

Mark 4:17

… According to our Savior's interpretation, this is what happens to people of this sort—"Afterward, when affliction or persecution arises for the Word's sake, immediately they …

The Well-Beloved's Vineyard

… Thus I might truly say that, whatever our circumstances may be, whether we are poor or rich, in health or in affliction, each one of our cases has …

Waiting Only Upon God

Psalm 62:6

… it to be a magnificent consolation to you, almost greater than the suffering and affliction incurred, that you have become the possessor of her wealth. Now, worldly wise …

Scourge For Slumbering Souls

Amos 6:1

… He is described in the sixth verse, "And they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph." It is an awful thing to live in this world without …

Faith's Ultimatum

Job 13:15

… I wish that we may all have its spirit this morning, that whether we suffer Job's trial or not we may, at any rate, have Job's …

A Cheerful Giver is Beloved of God

2 Corinthians 9:7

… A considerable portion of the Church of God is called to yet harder service, namely, that of suffering. God gets glory, still, out of the fire of affliction …

The Sitting of the Refiner

Malachi 3:3

… We have abundant historical evidence that our Lord's first Advent was a day of great trial to the Jewish people and when we remember the siege of …

The Stony Heart Removed

Ezekiel 36:26

… Sickness has befallen you, death has come in at your windows, affliction has come up against you, but like Pharaoh, you have said, "Who is the Lord, that …

Appreciative Correspondents, 1855-1890 (Continued)

… trial? Even David, when forced to do so, chose to fall into the hands of the Lord, and are we not there already? " I needed much affliction, as …

The Heavan of Heavan

Revelation 22:4

… And His form more than the sons of men—for He took upon Himself our sickness and bore our sorrows—and all this substitutionary grief plowed deep furrows …

Psalm 130

Psalm 130

… Luther, when he was buffeted by the devil at Coburg, and in great affliction, said to those about him, Venite, in conternptum Disboll, Psalmnum, De Profundis, quatuor vocibus …

'I Have Enough'

Genesis 33:9

… Jacob was about to enter upon a great trial and therefore he received a great comfort in preparation for it. God knows when to send angels to His …

'A Time to Love'

Ecclesiastes 3:8

… You have been many a time in the furnace of affliction, yet that, also, has been with your Lord, "a time to love" you! When you were despised …

Fire! Fire! Fire!

Isaiah 43:2

… This represents the overwhelming influence of trial in which the soul is sometimes so covered that it becomes like a man sinking in the waves. “When thou goest …

Psalm 10

Psalm 10

… only felt affliction which can become blest affliction. If we were carried in the arms of God over every stream, where would be the trial, and where the …

Love Stronger Than Death

John 13:1

… Your heart can never fail to remember the wounds He endured when suffering for you. Well, now, if you and I had to bear all that Christ had …

A Golden Prayer

John 12:28

… He saw the vicarious suffering which lay in His way and His soul was troubled. Do not imagine that our Savior dreaded death, in itself considered. He was …

A Lesson from the Life of King Asa

2 Chronicles 16:9

… In the middle of his reign Asa was put to the test by a very serious trial. He was attacked by the Ethiopians and they came against him …

Thought Condemned, Yet Commanded

Matthew 6:31-33

… Of course, this rule would not apply in the case of those who are disabled by old age, or laid aside by sickness, but, in every other case …

Jesus No Phantom

Matthew 14:26

… We are, perhaps, enduring an unusually severe trial and need more than usual support. But we fearfully say, "I cannot expect to be supported under this affliction." Ah …

"All the Day Long"

Proverbs 23:17

… for a life of trial. One is the more tried because these men are very apt to boast. They crow over the suffering Believer, saying, "What comes of …

Backsliding Healed

Hosea 14:4

… Has He said, and shall He not do it? It is Jehovah that says it! However desperate our soul is in sickness, it shall be recovered. For is …

Prosperity Under Persecution

Exodus 1:10-12

… So whenever you have a trial, take it as a favor; whenever God holds in one hand the rod of affliction, he has a favor in the other …