Suffering & Affliction

Assured Security In Christ

2 Timothy 1:12

… When sickness brings you to the borders of the grave and you gaze into eternity, the enquiry will come to any thoughtful man—Is this confidence of mine …

Psalm 4

Psalm 4

… The Psalm was most probably written upon the same occasion as the preceeding, and is another choice flower from the garden of affliction. Happy is it for us …

"Things To Come"

1 Corinthians 3:22

… As Midas of old touched even the most valueless objects and turned them into gold, so does the hand of Divine Love transmute every trial and affliction into …

Psalm 112

Psalm 112

… that is, comfort in affliction. He hath comforted others in affliction, and been light to them in their darkness, as is showed in the latter end of the …

Evening, November 3

2 Chronicles 30:27

… In every condition, whether of poverty, or sickness, or obscurity, or slander, or doubt, your covenant God will welcome your prayer and answer it from His holy place …

Man's Scorn and God's Succor

Job 16:20

… This becomes a very little sorrow to us in later days, but at the first it is a "trial of cruel mocking," and a very severe one. I …

Mary Magdalene

Mark 16:9

… We are simply informed that she was possessed with seven devils, which is an affliction rather than a crime. I do not deny that sin may have prepared …

A Miracle of Grace

… And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord, his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and prayed unto him and he …

God Fighting Sin

Isaiah 63:10

… Affliction comes into the family one way or another—not the affliction of Job which tried him for God's Glory—but the affliction of Jacob who was …

A Comprehensive Benediction

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… It is, in fact, everlasting! Now let sickness come—the consolation still abides. Have we not seen hundreds of Believers as happy in the weakness of disease as …

Praise Comely to the Upright

Psalm 33:1

… cages, and so they do when the cages have in them some affliction and trial. Then do they pour out their notes sweetly, magnifying the name of the …

The Joy Of Jesus

Luke 10:21

… If those who are reckoned to be learned, profess to come to Christ, they are generally a trial to the Church. All the merely human learning that has …

'The Shadow of a Great Rock'

Isaiah 32:2

… these times of trial you have found Christ to be a blessed Comforter! And I will venture to say that the sharper your affliction has been, the sweeter …

Psalm 63

Psalm 63

… This Psalm is peculiarly suitable for the bed of sickness, or in any constrained absence from public worship . EXPOSITION Verse 1. O God, thou art my God; or …

Barriers Obliterated

Isaiah 44:22

… I will smite you with affliction upon affliction, but I will have you—I will not allow you to perish! Return ere this rough treatment is meted out …

Turning From Death

Ezekiel 33:11

… God calls to the sinner to turn, but turn he never will unless there is something more than the call! By the public ministry, by sickness, by the …

Never! Never! Never! Never! Never!

Hebrews 13:5

… You Jacobs, full of affliction, you tried and troubled heirs of heaven, he hath said to you, each one of you—oh! believe him!—I will never leave …

"Speak, Lord!"

1 Samuel 3:10

… A little while after, you have had some severe trial, and you realize that the Lord had spoken to you to strengthen you to bear the affliction! At …

God's Fatherly Pity

Psalm 103:13

… And I remember one who said to me, "I appeal to you, as a father, were your child suffering from a fever, his mind wandering and his speech …

The Last Enemy Destroyed

1 Corinthians 15:26

… Our path has been, up to now, from temptation to temptation, from trial to trial, from tribulation to tribulation. We are growing weary, we cannot forever bear wave …

The Anchor

Hebrews 6:17-20

… You will not be able to get away from it! Under temptation, depression of spirit, trial and affliction you will not only hold your hope—that is your …

One War Over and Another Begun

Judges 6:22-24

… He was a brave man, but long affliction had cast a tinge of sadness over him. His usual conduct in life is well pictured by the two signs …

Ruth's Reward—or, Cheer for Converts

Ruth 2:12

… When you have sustained a trial which once would have crushed you, the victory is exceedingly sweet. Every advance in holiness is an advance in secret happiness! To …

A Luther Sermon at the Tabernacle

Habakkuk 2:4

… They are not overcome by prevalent sin, or fashionable heresy, or cruel persecution, or fierce affliction—nothing can kill spiritual life while faith abides—"The just shall live …

Noah's Faith, Fear, Obedience, and Salvation

Hebrews 11:7

… What a trial! How it has made my heart glad, during the month of May, to see and propose for church-fellowship no less than sixty-nine! But …

The Lily Among Thorns

Solomon 2:2

… Nowadays persecutors cannot drag men to the stake, but the old trial of cruel mocking is still continued—in some cases it rages even more fiercely than ever …

The Spies

Numbers 13:32

… Ungodly men of course do not come and by repentance and faith make a trial of the love of Christ; they do not enter into covenant with the …

'He Blessed Him There'

Genesis 32:29

… Now, secondly, let us enquire, WHAT WAS THE PLACE WHERE JACOB GOT THIS CHOICE BLESSING? And the answer comes, first, it was a place of very peculiar trial …

Their Desired Haven

Psalm 107:30

… In such an assembly as this I have surely some who have either been restored from a bed of sickness when they were almost given over, or who …

The Covenanter

Psalm 25:10

… I take it that one reason for this weight is the fact that David was in affliction. He says, "I am desolate and afflicted. Look upon my affliction …

A Word for the Persecuted

1 Samuel 20:10

… Since our Lord has forewarned us, it is well for us to stand ready for the trial which he predicts, and to ask ourselves whether we are ready …

The Believer Not An Orphan

… The dear father, so well beloved, was suddenly smitten down with sickness; they watched him with anxiety; they nursed him with sedulous care; but he expired. The loving …

The Plumb Line

Amos 7:7

… Have you ever known what it is to be laid aside, on a bed of sickness, and to have everything about you tried? In times of acute pain …

Another Lesson From Manasseh's Life

2 Chronicles 33:10

… more afraid of God's anger than he is of suffering. He does not object to affliction—what he does fear is any degree of the wrath of …

The Present Crisis

Hosea 5:15

… in their affliction they will seek Me early." Hosea 5:15 . THE Lord does not always tell us what He will do. "Verily You are a God that …

Majesty in Misery

Luke 22:63-65

… Thus, after He had been, in an informal and illegal way, condemned without any proper trial, they left Him in the custody of their officers until early in …

The Feast of the Lord

… The bread represents the body, but the cup must represent the blood, or else you have no token of his suffering—no emblem of his death. Cannot the …

A Mighty Plea

Psalm 27:9

… Lord, help me out of this affliction, for You did redeem me on a former occasion. I was weak and friendless then, and could not help myself. But …

"After Two Days Is the Passover"

Matthew 26:2

… He was not mentioning His suffering that He might ask for their sympathy. There is no trace of His crying, like Job, "Have pity upon me, have pity …

Psalm 78

Psalm 78

… What a mercy to have a light of fire with us amid the lonely horrors of the wilderness of affliction. Our God has been all this to us …