Suffering & Affliction

Psalm 23

Psalm 23

… And if they wander he'll fetch them in, it may be with his shepherd's dog (some affliction); but he'll not be, as we say, dogged …

'Return Unto Your Rest'

Psalm 116:7

… Sometimes, he leaves it through affliction and especially if that affliction comes from man. The Psalmist tells us that in his haste, he said, "All men are liars …

Psalm 68

Psalm 68

… means of grace. (c) In prayer. (d) In affliction. (e) When saints are weary (1) through working; (2) through sickness; (3) through non success. (f) By the Holy …

Morning, April 5

Lu 23:26

… Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure …

Evening, August 5

Nu 32:6

… Shrinking from trial is the temptation of those who are at ease in Zion: they would fain escape the cross and yet wear the crown; to them the …

Morning, July 11

1Pe 5:10

… The apostle’s words point us to suffering as the means employed—“ After that ye have suffered awhile .” It is of no use to hope that we shall …

Evening, July 5

Is 26:4

… So far from suffering doubts to live in our hearts, we will take the whole detestable crew, as Elijah did the prophets of Baal, and slay them over …

The Pleasures of Piety

Psalm 104:34

… It may be suitable for those who are in poverty and deep trial, but that it is at all congruous with the condition of a healthy, able-bodied …

The Two Talents

Matthew 25:22-23

… Oh, that ye who are without God would remember that your life is assuredly such, that the trial of the last great day must end in your condemnation …

The Good Shepherd

Psalm 23:1

… the fiery furnace of Providential trial, they have had trials enough and trials that no heart has known except their own suffering which they could not tell to …

Exceeding Gladness

Psalm 21:6

… not, I can speak as one who has not been without abundant affliction and trial—we who believe in Jesus are a happy people, an enviable people. "Happy …

The Church As She Should Be

Solomon 6:4

… She is the church militant here below, and both in suffering and in service she is made to prove that she is in an enemy’s country. She …

Morning, May 2

Jn 17:15

… same wish to die at other times when not under the pressure of trial. They want to go home, not so much for the Saviour’s company, as …

"Lead Us Not Into Temptation"

Matthew 6:13

… Of course we should be glad to escape those things, but the prayer aims at another form of trial and may be paraphrased thus—"Save me, O Lord …

Sympathy

… Was Alexander ever more royal than when, while his troops were suffering from thirst, he put aside a bowl full of the precious liquid, which a soldier offered …

Jonah's Resolve—or, 'Look Again!'

Jonah 2:4

… His trial was all his own. No stranger intermeddled in it. In his affliction, he had no predecessor and no successor. He was the first and the last …

A Witness and a Partaker

1 Peter 5:1

… Peter was what we have not been, an eyewitness of the suffering of Christ. He actually and in very deed saw our Divine Master in His terrible griefs …

The Deceitfulness of Sin

Hebrews 3:13

… We ought not to pray so much against sickness, or trial, or temptation, or even against death itself, as against sin! Satan, himself, cannot hurt us except as …

Railings

Deuteronomy 22:8

… see to it that His Grace is given suitable for your station and affliction necessary for your elevation! The Lord will put railings around you, and it is …

Unreasonable Reasons

Matthew 14:31

… I felt that I was the man that above all others had seen affliction." Well, but do you think that these things were peculiar to God? Remember He …

Consolation For The Despairing

Psalm 31:22

… With other mournful ones depression began through a great trial. As we have heard of some that their hair turned gray in a single night through grief, so …

Abraham's Prompt Obedience to the Call of God

Hebrews 11:8

… You have had the call too in the form of sickness and sore trouble. In the silence of the night, when you could not sleep, your conscience has …

The Vision of the Field

Ezekiel 36:9

… Sometimes it is a Providential trial. One man loses a child. Another has to bury his father. And yonder one has had to follow his wife to the …

The Church a Mother

Isaiah 49:20

… and the most cast down, and the most subject to temptation and to trial. She will watch over them and nurse them. And she will never be happy …

Christ Made Sin

2 Corinthians 5:21

… Faith has such wondrous power that it makes us rejoice even in trial! It helps Christians to be glad even in the midst of sorrow. 3. Knowing that …

Forgetting God

Hosea 13:6

… I think it is so and, certainly, this is true— that seasons of prosperity, of any sort, are seasons of great trial to Christians. According to our text …

Jesus Near but Unrecognized

Luke 24:16

… He shall purify the sons of Levi." When you are in the furnace, suffering affliction, trial and depression of spirit, the Refiner is Christ, the same loving Christ …

Confidence and Concern

2 Timothy 1:12-14

… for the near company of such rough and cruel soldiers would involve much suffering. The Apostle was not only a prisoner, chained by his right hand to a …

Good Cheer From Christ's Real Presence

Mark 6:45-52

… In seasons of depressed trade, great sickness, terrible wars and public disasters, it is balm to the spirit to know that Jesus is still the same. Sin may …

Sihon and Og, or Mercies in Detail

Psalm 136:17-22

… Generally, when we are in deep waters, there is some peculiar feature to distinguish the trial and to identify it afterwards. I know that Monday's mercy will …

David's Five-stringed Harp

… It is peculiarly trying to a man who is thus patient and long-suffering to be incessantly compassed about with false accusations and manifold temptations. David said of …

Mary's Magnificat

Luke 1:46

… It was only her wondrous faith—in some respects, her matchless faith, for no other woman had ever had such a blessed trial of faith as she had …

Life And Walk Of Faith

Colossians 2:6

… I see Him on the Cross, suffering, and I know that He is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh. But I hear a voice which …

Ruth Deciding for God

Ruth 1:16

… If you can take God and affliction. If you can accept Christ and a cross—then your decision to be His follower is true and real! It has …

The Church of Christ

Ezekiel 34:26

… The dew does not fall in the day—it falls in the night; the night of affliction, trial, and trouble. There stands the promise; only go and plead …

Our Lord's Solemn Enquiry

Matthew 27:46

… O my God, my God, when away from thee affliction stuns me, but I will close with thee, and then even my affliction I will take to be …

A Call to the Lord's Own Flock

Ezekiel 34:30

… Remember how Moses spoke concerning our God and said, "The Lord is long-suffering and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the …

Psalm 89

Psalm 89

… In the nature of affliction. "Wilt thou hide thyself", etc. 2. In the duration of affliction. "How long, Lord?" 3. In the severity of affliction. Wrath burning like …

The Word of a King

Ecclesiastes 8:4

… Then, are there any of you in great trouble? I cannot know all your cases, but if any one of you has a trial which you could not …

Where Is the God of Elijah?

2 Kings 2:14

… What a trial for her faith! This stranger must have the first portion of her last meal—yet she had faith enough to obey his word. 14, 15 …