Suffering & Affliction

Morning, August 29

Ps 51:1

… Carey was suffering from a dangerous illness, the enquiry was made, “If this sickness should prove fatal, what passage would you select as the text for your funeral …

Morning, January 25

Is 63:7

… his mercy towards thee? What, didst thou never have a sickness like that which thou art suffering now, and did he not restore thee? Wert thou never poor …

David's Sublime Consolation

2 Samuel 23:5

… Now, this particular form of trial accumulates as we grow older. Some of us here have not yet come to it. May God grant that we never may …

The Danger of Carnal Security

Judges 18:7

… a great quietness from all trial. It is not so with many of you, for you are sorely vexed with troubles, sickness, poverty, or bereavement. You seem to …

The Ethiopian

Jeremiah 13:23

… In former times, when there came sickness into the house, he used to pray. And in time of trouble he sought the Lord. He has had many a …

The Seed Upon Stony Ground

Mark 4:5

… With others it has not been such a trial as that, but Providential affliction. I painfully remember a man and his wife who were members of this Church …

Psalm 43

Psalm 43

… Touching suffering wrongs of men. Touching suffering wrongs of men, believers may appeal upon these three grounds: (a) The injustice that men do to believers, is as well …

The First Setting Up of the Bronze Serpent

Numbers 21:4-9

… But He may send to us, if we grow peevish, a fresh and novel affliction, a crooked trial which will twist and wriggle about us—a sudden grief …

Our King, Our Joy

Psalm 149:2

… You are in your suffering, but what matters since He is in His triumph? Children of Zion, enter into this joy, and this day be joyful in your …

Beauty for Ashes

Isaiah 61:3

… distress, when he can sing in the fires of affliction, when he can rejoice on the bed of sickness, when his shout of triumph grows louder as his …

Faith's Dawn and Its Clouds

Mark 9:24

… Dost thou rest in him, in him thy God, thy brother, thy Savior; in him as living among the sons of men; in him as bleeding and suffering …

Comfort and Constancy

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… I am sure that if a Christian woman, in the time of affliction at home, is calm, patient, resigned and happy, she is more likely to see her …

An Awful Premonition

Matthew 16:28

… If they are for hours, or days, or weeks, or months, upon the bed of sickness, yet the real work of dying is but short. It is more …

Peter After His Restoration

Luke 22:32

… As a parent you may need affliction, because a father without a trial can give no counsel to a tempted child. Public workers may have to be tried …

An Urgent Necessity

Hosea 10:12

… Some have been in imminent peril in accidents—some of us have come into the very jaws of death in serious sickness. We might almost sing, or quite …

Redeemed Souls Freed From Fear

… In all Israel’s times of disaster, and calamity, and trial, they joyfully remembered that the Lord had redeemed them when they were a company of slaves, helpless …

Gratitude for Great Deliverances

Psalm 102:19-22

… who is like unto you, O people saved by the Lord?" Yet there are still many sons and daughters of affliction and there are many trials and tribulations …

The Lambs And Their Shepherd

Isaiah 40:11

… The extraordinary patience of the sheep is seen in God's people when they joyously endure a weight of affliction and pass through the valley of death with …

The Remembrance of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:24

… How shall we comfort him under this great trial? If we suffered the same, what should we wish some friend to say to us? Shall we tell him …

Christ's Past and Present Witnesses

John 15:27

… than usual—yet has the Character of Christ come forth unhurt from every trial. A perfect Man ought to be believed when He speaks. The perfection of His …

The Power of a Sigh

Psalm 12:5

… Let us not think it strange concerning the fiery trial we have to endure, as though we were the first persons to whom that trial has come. No …

Prayer Answered, Love Nourished

Psalm 116:1

… Then again; how often sickness has laid hold upon you, and like Hezekiah, you have turned your face to the wall, and cried, “Lord, spare thy servant, and …

Moses—His Faith and Decision

Hebrews 11:24-26

… very different thing from mere suffering or imprisonment. "With the people of God"—that is the sweet which kills the bitter of affliction. Nobody here wants to go …

The Holdfasts of Faith

Romans 4:16

… It may be that the arrows of death have slain your dearest and best and, at the same time, you have suffered crushing losses in business, sickness of …

Christ with the Keys of Death and Hell

Revelation 1:18

… And if the enemy comes in like a flood it is by permission of Jesus that the trial comes. Every roaming of the lion of the Pit is …

The Storm and the Shower

Zechariah 13:7

… The sword of Divine Justice was stirring in its scabbard, but God's long-suffering was pushing it back. But now He cries to it, "Awake, O sword …

What is the Verdict?

1 John 3:21

… There is to be a trial within the heart, or conscience—a trial in which every power of the inner nature is to take its part as prosecutor …

Good Cheer for Many That Fear

Isaiah 35:4

… Possibly you have sickness in the house and you are half inclined to repine, and to think that there is some anger mingled with the strokes of the …

Psalm 17

Psalm 17

… In verses 5 and 6, he requests of the Lord grace to act rightly while under the trial. From verse 7-12, he seeks protection from his foes …

Crossing the Jordan

Joshua 1:10

… You are not called to linger on the bed of sickness for ages but to pass over to your rest. And notice, the call was not to go …

Sunlight for Cloudy Days

Psalm 40:17

… I am suffering wrongfully." "Indeed!" said the prince, and passed on to the next man. "My poor fellow, I am sorry to see you here, how did it …

Dying Daily

1 Corinthians 15:31

… and on the mountain, in strength and in sickness, on the battlefield of activity or in the hospital of suffering. He shall be tutored for immortality, trained for …

Satan's Arrows and God's

Lamentations 3:12

… I read is as a picture of the suffering of a soul under a sense of sin. I think it is a most graphic portrait of a heart …

The Right Kind of Fear

Proverbs 28:14

… They are afraid of a certain form of suffering that threatens them—they fear that they will not have patience enough to bear up under it. They feel …

Morning, June 22

Zec 6:13

… When we reach heaven, there will be no sanctifying us there, no squaring us with affliction, no planing us with suffering. No, we must be made meet here …

A Sermon From A Rush

Job 8:11-13

… When the trial-hour came—then the destruction was terribly complete—but meanwhile its foundations were dug without labor and its timbers were set up without trouble. It …

The Savior's Thirst

John 19:28

… Possibly that cry was an indication that the battle had turned and that victory was coming to the suffering Hero. But, ah, Brothers and Sisters, however there may …

Obtaining Promises

Hebrews 11:33

… Is it sickness—"I will make all your bed in your sickness." Is it failure in business, crops, harvest and the like? "At destruction and famine you shall …

Our Lord's First Appearance before Pilate

John 18:38

… If we grow tired of the story of the Cross it will be a sad indication of secret soul-sickness and it will be well to observe the …

Truly Eating the Flesh of Jesus

John 6:53-56

… Christ the Exemplar cannot save you if you reject Him as the Christ who bowed His head to death, even the death of the Cross, suffering in His …