Suffering & Affliction

The Redeemer's Face Set Like a Flint

Isaiah 50:7

… A far worse trial, however, to Christ's steadfast resolve was furnished by the unworthiness of those He came to help. "He came unto His own"—and how …

A Drama in Five Acts

1 Corinthians 7:29-31

… The wife is smitten by the hand of death; she lies on her bed, blanched with sickness and wan with pain; there is a weeping husband at her …

Rest For The Laboring

Matthew 11:28-30

… But when Jesus is revealed as bleeding and suffering in the sinner's place, and making full atonement for human guilt, then the conscience grows quiet. As Noah …

Sin and Grace

Romans 5:20

… The sorrows of mankind—from where did they come but from sin? We would have known no war, nor pestilence, nor famine, nor would anything of sickness or …

The Death of Christ

Isaiah 53:10

… such bruising from him in the time of their trial. WHAT WAS THE REASON OF THE SAVIOUR’S SUFFERING? We are told here, “Thou shalt make his soul …

Psalm 20

Psalm 20

… The whole verse is a very fitting benediction to be pronounced by a gracious heart over a child, a friend, or a minister, in prospect of trial; it …

Bringing Sinners to the Savior

Mark 9:17-20

… The great Physician, who healed our soul-sickness, was Christ Jesus the Lord! And if we are to be the means of blessing to the sons of men …

Precious, Honorable, Beloved

Isaiah 43:4

… Can we help your poverty? Can we cheer your sickness? Can we bear a part of your burden? We love you and count you honorable for the sake …

An Earnest Warning about Lukewarmness

… To be slandered is a dire affliction, but it is, upon the whole, a less evil than to be thought better than we are; in the one case …

The Secret Of Health

Psalm 42:11

… You are sick and must be cured, or you are damned, for your sickness is incipient damnation. Sir, you were born with a cancer in your bosom which …

Glorious Predestination

Romans 8:29

… He was a man of many trials; he went from one tribulation to another for Christ's sake; he swam through many seas of affliction to serve the …

Psalm 146

Psalm 146

… Let it be said to one when set in some affliction, "There is a great man by whom thou mayest be set free"; he smiles, he rejoiceth, he …

A Precious Drop Of Honey

Isaiah 49:16

… You said yesterday, when trial after trial came — "My God has quite forgotten me; My Lord will be gracious no more." Here is God's answer to you …

God's Gentle Power

1 Kings 19:11-13

… If the like should ever happen to any of you' my brethren and sisters, count it no strange thing, nor suppose that some extraordinary trial hath happened unto …

Turning Back in the Day of Battle

Psalm 78:9

… Ah! how much there is we do that will not stand trial! How much there is of godliness which is useful for anything excepting that which it is …

The Character of Christ’s People

John 17:16

… Of the two trials, the trial of adversity is less severe to the spiritual man than that of prosperity. “As the fining pot for silver, so is a …

All-Sufficiency Magnified

Philippians 4:13

… It matters not what suffering his persecutors might put upon him, he felt that he was quite able, through Divine Grace, to bear it; and no doubt though …

Portraits Of Christ

Romans 8:29

… You must bear the Cross of suffering; you must bear the shame and spitting of ungodly men; you, too, must become in your measure the song of the …

Psalm 60

Psalm 60

… So Hupfeld explains the constructions, referring to Ps 80:5, "Thou hast made them feed upon weeping like bread; "1Ki 22:27, "Feed him with affliction as bread …

The Annual Atonement

Leviticus 16:30

… Once more, it was a day of perfect cleansing and, therefore, by a strange logic, a day of the affliction of the soul, for, oh, when sin is …

'Magnificat'

Judges 5:12

… When shall you praise him? Why, praise him when you are full of doubts, even when temptations assail you, when poverty hovers round you, and when sickness bows …

A Question for a Questioner

Psalm 77:9

… Had he not taken to continual prayer he had perished in his affliction; but he cried unto God with his voice, and the Lord gave ear unto him …

A Type and Its Teaching

Genesis 22:8

… How stern the trial! How striking the triumph! How sublime, both in action and passion, was the faith of Abraham in that terrible crisis. It pleased God to …

The Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus

2 Timothy 2:8

… FROM long sickness my mind is scarcely equal to the work before me. Certainly, if I had ever sought after brilliance of thought or language, I should have …

Order Is Heaven's First Law

Joel 2:8

… So beautiful is the order of Nature that we cannot wantonly destroy a race of little birds without suffering from their removal. When the small birds were killed …

The Cast-Off Sash

Jeremiah 13:1-11

… I would rather suffer every sickness in the list of human diseases than that God should put me aside as a vessel in which He has no pleasure …

The Fruits of Grace

Isaiah 19:18-25

… He shall deliver them from all temptation, from all trial, from all affliction, from death itself. "He shall deliver them." Now put the two points together. We have …

Victorious Faith

1 John 5:4

… If we are suffering pain or poverty, or whatever form of trial we may be called to endure, if we are tempted to say, "God is dealing harshly …

Binding Up Broken Hearts

Isaiah 61:1

… Save us, O God, if possible, from the terrible affliction of being entirely broken down in life's battle! Yet, very closely allied to this great calamity is …

A Challenge and War Cry

1 Corinthians 15:55-58

… is an exceeding and eternal weight of glory! This far surpasses the light affliction of losing all that earth can give. Death, we tell you again that your …

Am I Sought Out?

Isaiah 62:12

… Affliction after affliction and tribulation after tribulation were the means which God used for seeking us out. And then came visitations, mysterious visitations. It was in the night …

The Comer’s Conflict with Satan

Luke 9:42

… Sometimes they reflect upon his love, and tell you that God will not save you; sometimes upon his long suffering, and they tell you you are too old …

Enduring to the End

Matthew 10:22

… Why,” saith the tempter, “why be always suffering—give it up.” You see, then, it is also perseverance in suffering which the devil shooteth at. Or, perhaps, it …

The Young Man'S Prayer

Psalm 90:14

… ISRAEL had suffered a long night of affliction. Dense was the darkness while they abode in Egypt, and cheerless was the glimmering twilight of that wilderness which was …

A Visit From the Lord

Psalm 106:4

… Our text may also be used in another sense, for salvation means deliverance from grievous affliction, ]ust as, in this Psalm, when the children of Israel were brought …

Good Cheer From Christ's Victory Over the World

John 16:33

… The Greek word which Jesus used is not quite of the same import as our English-Latin word, but it means pressing grief and searching trial. You must …

The Soul's Awakening

John 5:25

… Himself our sickness! And what did that mean? Why it meant compassion. A beautiful word, that—compassion—a united passion, a fellow-feeling, a kindred suffering! It seemed …

The God of the Aged

Isaiah 46:4

… man been to the chamber of sickness! How many times hath that aged sister been stretched on the bed of affliction! How many diseases can he or she …

Psalm 8

Psalm 8

… He can carry thee upon eagles' wings, enable thee to bear and suffer strong affliction for him, to persevere to the end, to live by faith, and to …

Mr. Spurgeon as a Literary Man (Concluded)

… I found him very ill, suffering from inflammation of the lungs, consequent on the diabetes. He took my hands, and, as well as he could between his tears …