Suffering & Affliction

Psalm 56

Psalm 56

… a metaphor from the keeper of a vineyard, who receives into his vessel the drops of the grapes pressed out by the winepress of affliction. The word dag …

The Minstrel

2 Kings 3:15

… It must be a grief of your own making; it cannot be a trial of God’s sending. Tell the Lord your affliction, and the bitterness of it …

The Great Miracle Worker

John 11:47

… At any rate, I challenge them to make the trial, and I am not asking of them more than candor requires of every honest man. There are some …

Three Arrows—or Six?

2 Kings 13:18

… They repented because of the suffering rather than because of the sin. They went back to the sin after they escaped from the sorrow. Oh, be not so …

Songs in the Night

Job 35:10

… s mercy towards you! What? Did you ever have a sickness like that which you are suffering now, and did He not raise you up from it? Were …

Evening, August 18

Mk 15:23

… I refuse the comfort, if it comes in the way of thine honour.” O that we thus walked more in the footsteps of our Lord, cheerfully enduring trial …

Frost And Thaw

Psalm 147:16-18

… Rest assured that when God is pleased to send out the biting winds of affliction He is in them, and He is always love—as much love in …

A New Year's Retrospect And Prospect

Psalm 10:17

… Before the year has run its course, who of us may have to toss upon the bed of sickness by the month, together? Who may be slandered? Who …

The Tent Dissolved and the Mansion Entered

2 Corinthians 5:1

… In addition to this, he endured cold and hunger, nakedness and sickness brought upon him by his missionary sacrifices. He had a hard time of it as to …

Frost and Thaw

… He can afflict you with the snow trial, or with the hoarfrost trial, or with the ice trial, if he will; and anon he can with his word …

The Weaned Child

Psalm 131:2

… We do not remember, now, what a trial it was to us, but we may take it as a type of all troubles, for if we have faith …

Filling Up the Measure of Iniquity

Genesis 15:16

… It is a well-known Truth of God that God has great long-suffering, but that there is a point beyond which even His long-suffering will not …

Preventing Grace

1 Samuel 25:32

… the Grace of God exercised through trial and suffering! They would have gone astray, but they were barred down by affliction. They would have leaped the hedges of …

Psalm 65

Psalm 65

… We seek sanctification, and trial will be the reply: we ask for more faith, and more affliction is the result: we pray for the spread of the gospel …

The Everlasting Arms

Deuteronomy 33:27

… Sometimes, "underneath," were the fiery serpents and all manner of evil things, so that their march towards Canaan was a continual trial to them. "But," says God to …

Crowding to Touch the Savior

Mark 3:10

… Spiritual sickness is as rife today as bodily sickness was in the period of our Lord's earthly sojourn. He is, at this hour, graciously occupied in healing …

'His Great Love'

Ephesians 2:4

… He meant to heal our soul-sickness and He did heal it! Determined to save us, He would not heed the rebuff of our carelessness and callousness, but …

Psalm 46

Psalm 46

… In this verse, Jerusalem, which represents the church of God, is described as well supplied with water, to set forth the fact that in seasons of trial all …

Praises and Vows Accepted in Zion

Psalm 65:1-2

… Health to be able to come here and not to be stretched on a bed of sickness, I count this better than bags of gold. To have our …

'Where Are the Nine?' Where?

Luke 17:17

… Now, "the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans," yet, when both are placed beyond the pale of society—in their sickness an intimacy springs up between them …

Following Christ

2 Samuel 15:21

… You cannot in these softer days earn the ruby crown of martyrdom, but you have, at least, the trial of cruel mockings. Bear up manfully, and meet their …

His Name—Wonderful!

Isaiah 9:6

… I bless him for it; I love him for it; I desire to praise his name while immortality endures for his infinite condescension in thus suffering for me …

Healing and Pardon

Isaiah 33:24

… If by past sin one has brought himself into a state of sickness, or poverty, or depression, these may leave their traces upon him, but from the day …

The True Apostolical Succession

Psalms 45:16

… my temptation, by the bed of my sickness ; my helpers in council, my assistants in labour, my comforters in trial, my ready friends in the Church, and my …

The Universal Remedy

Isaiah 53:5

… After sin has brought us into sickness, and sickness into weakness, there is no restorative under Heaven that is equal to living in a constant daily sense of …

The Pilgrim's Grateful Recollections

Deuteronomy 8:3-6

… affliction, than I have ever derived from prosperity. In fact, I have for years looked upon my great prosperity as being sent as a test and trial of …

A Singular But Needful Question

John 5:6

… Dwelling here among the sons of men, not in a Paradise, but in the midst of obloquy, temptation, and suffering, yet was He a whole, sound Man. Sicknesses …

"Your First Love"

Jeremiah 2:2

… It is a sad charge against anybody that he forgets the care that God has taken of him in the days of his poverty and affliction. When a …

For Whom Did Christ Die?

Romans 5:6

… In other diseases men are grieved at their sickness, but this is the worst feature in your case, that you love the evil which is destroying you. In …

Heaven Above and Heaven Below

Revelation 7:16

… I would like to die of the disease, but still, a sickness comes upon one to whom heavenly things are revealed in great measure and enjoyed with special …

The Claims of God

Psalm 100:3

… affliction, you are not laid prostrate on yon bed to be the victim of heartless laws, but there is One who makes all your bed in your sickness …

Christ's Glory Turned to Shame

Psalm 4:2

… If you are tossing to and fro upon a bed of sickness and someone sneers at your pains, you know how such unkindness cuts you to the quick …

Job's Resignation

Job 1:20-22

… We do not wish to be like they—we are quite content to have the suffering heart that Job had—and to feel the bitterness of spirit, the …

Expected Proof of Professed Love

2 Corinthians 8:24

… Oh, for more love! Let the martyrs tell you what poor suffering flesh and blood can do when love strengthens it! Let holy women that have debated and …

A Lesson From The Great Panic

Hebrews 12:27

… Where was his resignation then? Perhaps it stood that trial. But lo, the Lord removes another—how now, good Sir? A second time— do you still bear it …

Hezekiah And The Ambassadors—Or, Vainglory Rebuked

2 Kings 20:12

… Beside this, Hezekiah had been restored from a sickness pronounced to be mortal. He had been granted a singular escape from the gates of death. Where another man …

"I Thought"

2 Kings 5:11

… He is healing you by your sickness and drawing you nearer to Himself by driving you further away from creature confidence. Often and often we fail to see …

Our Life, Our Work, Our Change

Job 14:14

… We are put into this world for one appointed time of suffering and in sacred patience we must abide steadfast the heat of the furnace. The life of …

The Sweet Harp of Consolation

Isaiah 41:10

… Then is the time for the promise to be applied with power. "Fear not, for I am with you." "I will make all your bed in your sickness …

The Nature and Design of Divine Chastening

1 Corinthians 11:32

… A great many of the members were smitten with sickness and some were even taken away by death. Little did the Church at Corinth understand the reason for …