Suffering & Affliction

Morning, May 30

Song 2:15

… How is this? Surely it must be an affliction for a tender child to be separated from his father. Art thou a child of God, and yet satisfied …

Christ Seen as God's Salvation

Luke 2:30

… wonderfully He has brought us through every trial! Even in my poverty, my eyes saw His Salvation. In my sickness and in my death, I did but see …

Forty Years

Deuteronomy 2:7

… When we have been in bodily pain, He has made our bed in our sickness. When we have felt the fiery furnace of trial, He has kept us …

David's Prayer in the Cave

… And some shall sing God's high praises in the fire, who did not praise Him as they should before the trial came. In the furnace of affliction …

Facts and Inferences

Psalm 37:35-37

… It is true that there sometime are manifest judgments upon individuals, communities and nation, but every trial or affliction is not a judgment—nor would it be right …

The Death of the Christian

Job 5:26

… A few short years of trial and trouble shall land him on fair Canaan’s coast, and we look upon him with the same pleasure that the farmer …

A Woman of a Sorrowful Spirit

1 Samuel 1:15

… It is never said, "whom the Lord loves He enriches," but it is said, "whom the Lord loves He chastens." Affliction and suffering are not proofs of sonship …

A Sore Grievance

Jeremiah 50:6

… If sheep, under the charge of any, should lose their rest, besides the cruelty to the creatures and the suffering it would involve them, it would be a …

Help for Your Sickness

Matthew 8:16

… On that occasion and on many others He cured all sorts of sickness. I think I am right in saying that there is not in the whole list …

The Great Physician And His Patients

Matthew 9:12

… If it were only a sickness, men were to be pitied for suffering it. But the element of the perverse will, of voluntary rebellion and designed offense enters …

Joy And Peace In Believing

Romans 15:13

… We suppose, also, that the persons whom we are addressing are not laboring under any bodily sickness such as might bring on hypochondria feelings and those despondencies which …

"My Beloved Is Mine"

Solomon 2:16

… not lain on the bed of sickness, "weary, and worn, and sad," till His Presence has made the chamber of affliction bright with the light of Heaven? Have …

Epilogue — The Golden Key of Prayer

… Rutherford had a quaint saying, that when he was cast into the cellars of affliction, he remembered that the great King always kept His wine there and he …

Christ the Cure for Troubled Hearts

Luke 24:38

… A little sickness, or a death in the family, or even the east wind and the fogs, with the dullness that often accompanies them, will bring back to …

Elijah Fainting

1 Kings 19:4

… You will make all his bed in his sickness." There is nothing that is really necessary or beneficial which God will not do for His children. If they …

New Tokens of Ancient Love

Jeremiah 31:3

… As surely as God puts them into the furnace of affliction and trial, He will be with them in the furnace. I do not read that Jacob ever …

Psalm 141

Psalm 141

… So true is Christian brotherhood that we are with our friends in sickness or persecution, suffering their griefs; so that our heart's prayer is in their sorrows …

Psalm 90

Psalm 90

… The joy of consolation is in proportion to suffering in affliction. 3. The joy of the returning smiles of God is in proportion to the terror of his …

Ziklag—or David Encouraging Himself In God

1 Samuel 30:6

… Among other things we learn this, that where there is faith there is sure to be trial, for David, though he trusted God so heartily, had good need …

Saints Guarded From Stumbling

… But it would be a terrible trial to be roasted on a slow fire! Yet our lives are often so prolonged and filled with trial and temptation, that …

The Orphan's Father

Hosea 14:3

… I feel more sorry for a suffering child than even for a man or a woman. Adults have a measure of a power to help themselves, but if …

The Golden Key Of Prayer

Jeremiah 33:3

… Rutherford had a quaint saying that when he was cast into the cellars of affliction, he remembered that the great King always kept his wine there and he …

The Bellows Burned

Jeremiah 6:29

… Now, you who are the King's favorites will sometimes suffer a little twitch of bodily pain, or a little trial in business, or some slight relative affliction …

How the Lambs Feed

Isaiah 5:17

… The Hebrew commentators considered "the lambs" to mean the house of Israel and regarded this as a promise that in all times of distress and affliction, God's …

'The True Sayings of God'

Revelation 19:9

… Unless Your Law had been my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction. Notice the love of God's servant to God's Word. "Unless Your …

Departed Saints Yet Living

Luke 20:37

… Especially is the life of Jacob plowed and cross-plowed with affliction and trial! He spoke the truth when he summed up his life in the words, "Few …

Psalm 145

Psalm 145

… To the suffering, the weak, the despondent, he is very pitiful: he feels for them, he feels with them: he this heartily, and in a practical manner. Of …

The Unrivalled Friend

Proverbs 17:17

… You have been sorely sick, sometimes, but He it was that made the pillow and softened the bed of your affliction. It may be you have been slandered …

Everywhere And Yet Forgotten

Job 12:9

… We often get into a bad temper about a trifle, when a great trial does not agitate us. We are angry because we have scalded ourselves with a …

The Saints' Love to God

Psalm 31:23

… the time of trial Love will bear His will without repining, will endure bereavements and the loss of worldly substance and, even when the suffering saint lies panting …

The Captive Savior Freeing His People

John 18:8

… The voluntary character of Christ's suffering makes it beam with a matchless splendor of love! He needed not to have died. If it had been His good …

Christ Receiving Sinners

Matthew 9:10

… If you mean to shut up all the infected, every one of you must also be shut up, for you are all suffering from the same disease in …

Mistakes Concerning God

Psalm 1:21

… of affliction is very hot and we feel that we cannot endure its heat, we foolishly think that God cannot uphold us under the fiery trial. If our …

Two Choice Assurances

Genesis 15:1

… Fear neither the fury of foes, nor the worse trial—the failure of friends. Be brave, calm, trustful, hopeful, joyful. Fear not, Abram." "You have just been fighting …

Christopathy

Isaiah 53:5

… They can hear about His suffering and remain altogether unmoved—they have no fellowship with His suffering and scarcely know what the expression means! Sin is dear to …

'And It Was So'

Genesis 1:7

… Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. God has a great many rods and we get a great many smarts because of our …

A Cure For Unsavory Meats—or, Salt for the White of an Egg

Job 6:6

… He had spoken as harshly and severely as if he were a judge addressing a criminal who was suffering no more than he deserved. Looking at the speech …

The Threshing Floor of Ornan

1 Chronicles 21:28

… In the lion of trial we find the honey of communion! The temple of glory is built on the threshing floor of affliction! I do not thrust forward …

A Promise for the Blind

Jeremiah 31:8

… At one time it was diminished and brought low through affliction, persecution, or sorrow. At another, it was multiplied and increased exceedingly. It was the deliverance from one …

A Singular Title and a Special Favor

Psalm 59:10

… See, then, how the bow of trouble shot him like an arrow towards God! It is a blessed thing when the waves of affliction wash us upon the …