Suffering & Affliction

Psalm 58

Psalm 58

… As we are in body, subject to all diseases, but yet, some to one sickness rather than to another: so in the soul, all are apt enough to …

The Solar Eclipse

Isaiah 45:7

… Take the file of affliction, and once more the brightness becomes apparent. Christians without trouble would be like oysters without the sickness; they would not have produced pearls …

The Secret of a Happy Life

Psalm 16:8

… I may mention this as being the greatest recommendation of setting the Lord always before you—that it will bear reflection and yield comfort amid sickness and death …

A Voice from the Hartley Colliery

Job 14:14

… Like those earnest Methodist miners, we have one life of usefulness, of service, of affliction, of temptation; one life in which to glorify God on earth in blessing …

The Compassion of Jesus

Matthew 9:36

… Therefore, the Law must be honored, Justice must be vindicated, righteousness must be upheld, crime must be expiated by suffering! Who, then, shall endure the penance or make …

Concerning The Forbearance Of God

Romans 2:4

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, ON LORD'S-DAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1873. "Or do you despise the riches of His goodness and forbearance and long-suffering …

The Arrows of the Bow Broken in Zion

Psalm 76:3

… Where the tempted young man overcomes the temptation and stands fast in the day of trial—THERE it is where suffering is endured with patience, where labor is …

The Swift Camels

1 Kings 4:20-28

… You may be laid aside by sickness and then you will have suffering instead of serving. Or you may be made to drop into the rear rank and …

Sonship Questioned

Matthew 4:3

… blessing His people—sometimes, before a great trial, to prepare them for it—and, at other times, after a great affliction, to remove the weakness which has been …

God'S Cure For Man'S Weakness

Hebrews 11:34

… I cannot but think that when honest John Wickliffe, raising himself up in the bed of sickness, said to the monks who surrounded him, expecting him to die …

Paul, the Ready

Romans 1:15

… Thus, you see, Paul was ready for service, ready for suffering, ready for unpleasant duty and ready to die. If I were to go round this Tabernacle and …

God'S Witnesses

Isaiah 43:10

… There is a question, also, as to the ultimate results of present affliction. The world holds, as a theory, that if there is a God, He is very …

The Love of God and the Patience of Christ

2 Thessalonians 3:5

… But you well know that all the while Christ could have conquered all foes, chased away all suffering and kept off all temptation. But for our sakes, as …

Pictures of Life

James 4:14

… We may have to go through trial and affliction. Our pilgrimage may be a tiresome one, but it is safe! We cannot trace the river upon which we …

A New Year's Benediction

1 Peter 5:10

… When one year of trial has gone and another year of mercy has commenced, we may be allowed to express our sincere congratulations that God has spared us …

Psalm 118

Psalm 118

… Strength under affliction. 2. Song in hope of deliverance. 3. Salvation, or actual escape out of trial. Verse 15. The joy of Christian households. It is joy in …

Multitudinous Thoughts And Sacred Comforts

Psalm 94:19

… The most natural would be, I think, to refer it to thoughts tumultuous in the night of trial. There are occasions when we are grievously tried with troubles …

Our Lord's Trial before the Sanhedrin

Mark 14:64

… But in reality we shall follow the entire narrative of our Lord's trial before the High Priests. We shall see how the Sanhedrin arrived at their unrighteous …

God'S First Words To The First Sinner

Genesis 3:9

… I raised you up from a bed of sickness. I overlooked ten thousand follies. My mercies like a river have flown to you. When you opened your eyes …

The “Down-grade” Controversy, from Mr. Spurgeon’s Standpoint

… He told me that he meets with amazing scepticism among young men whom he has been called to visit in sickness, and he believes there is an epidemic …

Faith in Christ's Ability

Matthew 9:28

… Moreover, it seems to me that if you doubt God concerning any one trial, you give up the whole case. You would have me believe that your present …

The Spirit and the Wind

John 3:8

… A man in affliction, rejoicing. A man alone, yet in the best of company. The unregenerate cannot comprehend this singular person. The man that lives near to God …

Faith Illustrated

… For mark you here, the apostle was surrounded by a great fight of affliction; he was compassed about with troubles, he suffered within and without; and yet he …

The Priceless Prize

Philippians 3:8

… Affliction is no longer affliction when Christ is with us! Then the furnace glows, not with heat, alone, but with a golden Radiance, a present Glory when Christ …

The Old, Old Story

Romans 5:6

… Christ became the vicar of his people; vicariously suffering in their stead; vicariously doing in their stead that which they were not strong enough to do by reason …

Evening, July 3

2Ti 2:12

Evening, July 3 Go To Morning Reading “If we suffer, we shall also reign with him.” 2 Timothy 2:12 We must not imagine that we are suffering …

Life's Ever-Springing Well

John 4:14

… Some of you have been in acute bodily suffering, but your love to Christ was not destroyed by that long period of sickness. You have been very poor …

Christ Crucified

1 Corinthians 1:23-24

… Can you bless God for affliction? Can you plunge in, accounted as ye are, and swim through all the floods of trial? Can you march triumphant through the …

Strengthening Medicine For God's Servants

Joshua 1:5

… We shall rise again and, as our Master was triumphant through death, even so shall we through the greatest suffering and the most terrible defeats rise to His …

Pedigree

2 Corinthians 11:22

… I have sometimes scarcely enough bread to eat." "Have you many pains?" "Yes, I am full of disease, racked from head to foot with sickness." "I thought you …

Abraham's Double Blessing

Genesis 12:2

… That was the sharpest trial that could have befallen mortal man—to be commanded to go and offer up his own son, his only son, his beloved son …

Are You Prepared To Die?

Jeremiah 12:5

… We hear of suffering on a dying bed. The suffering is all connected with life, it is not death. The actual thing called death, as far as we …

Contention Ended and Grace Reigning

Isaiah 57:16-18

… The affliction of the soul is the soul of affliction. God will touch His people in their bone and their flesh and in their very hearts. Ah, my …

Christ's Joy and Ours

John 15:11

… Pain, sickness, depression of spirit—all seem to have been taken right away and the man has had so clear a view of Christ and his mind has …

Letters on Private and Public Affairs, 1856-1890 (Continued)

… Spurgeon was a true comforter of the suffering and sorrowing ; his frequent personal afflictions, added to his own sympathetic disposition, made him "a succourer of many." This cheering …

Luminous Words

1 Peter 4:1-3

… are to prefer any suffering of the flesh to the sin of the spirit and we are to be prepared to endure whatever trial or pain may come …

Jesus Washing His Disciples' Feet

John 13:6

… into the family of God! But what long-suffering and patience there is when the Savior, with much long-suffering, bears the daily follies of the recipient of …

Christians Kept From Sin

1 Samuel 25:32

… There is serious sickness in the home, but the physician is skillful, the nurse is wise and watchful, the disease takes a favorable turn, the man's life …

'The Time of Jacob's Trouble'

Jeremiah 30:7

… But nowhere have they been destroyed, though everywhere they have been in affliction! They had a very narrow escape from destruction in Haman's day—the enemy then …

The Child Of Light Walking In Darkness

Isaiah 50:10

… On the other hand, you may be bowed down with sorrow, and yet it may only be that "light affliction which is but for a moment," which works …