Suffering & Affliction

Psalm 93

Psalm 93

… After all, in every real trial there is but this one final and full comfort. What matters the opinion of men,—who may be for and who against …

The Tenderness of Jesus

Hebrews 4:15

… Though He has left behind Him all pain, suffering and infirmity, He retains to the fullest the fellow feelings which His life of humiliation has developed in Him …

'In Remembrance'

1 Corinthians 11:24

… The bread itself is a most impressive type of suffering. The corn is buried in the dark earth, pinched by many a frost when it peers above the …

Characteristics of Faith

John 4:48

… It comes to pass on a certain day that his son falls sick,—perhaps his only son, one very dear to his father's heart,—the sickness, instead …

The Lover of God's Law Filled With Peace

Psalm 119:165

… The Truth of God is no trifle to one who has fought his way to it and learned it in the school of affliction. "O my Soul, you …

Faith in the Person of the Lord Jesus

… If you have a little sickness, and you tell your physician-“Sir, I am quite confident in your skill to heal,” there is no great compliment in your …

The Middle Passage

Habakkuk 3:2

… Labor leads to lassitude, and suffering to impatience. Grace is needed to prevent the decays of Nature. When the natural spirits sink, we grow depressed and complain that …

Degrees Of Power Attending The Gospel

1 Thessalonians 1:5

… Listen to these words—"And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the Word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit: so …

Absconding and Apostasy

John 6:67

… The Lord give you, in like manner, strength of mind and courage of heart to bear the trial manfully! Then you will care no more for the laughter …

Discipline in Christ's Army

Joshua 1:11

… If you are Christ's true soldier, you will be most faithful in the hour of the greatest trial. But you will need to cry to the Strong …

Mr. Fearing Comforted

Matthew 14:31

… Now the Christian when he is full of faith passes through affliction with a song in his mouth; he would enter the fiery furnace itself, fearless of the …

'Hiding in You!'

Psalm 143:9

… David was prepared, but he could only have become so by means of the remarkable life of trial through which he was called to pass. Whenever we read …

'Oh, How He Loves!'

John 11:36

… being found in fashion as a Man," He took upon Himself human sickness and suffering. All our infirmities that were not sinful, Jesus Christ endured—the weary feet …

May 30 — HOLY FORESIGHT

Matt. 26:64

… What words are these, "Nevertheless -- hereafter"! I would imitate thy holy foresight, and in the midst of poverty, or sickness, or slander, I also would say, "Nevertheless -- hereafter …

Jehovah-Jireh

Genesis 22:14

… He does not choose to do so, but in the mountain it shall be seen! In the place of the trial, in the heat of the furnace—in …

Traveling Expenses On The Two Great Roads

Jonah 1:3

… He tells us that he, "cried by reason of affliction." He compares his state to the "belly of Hell." He was brought into such depths of distress, a …

Dec. 19 — AFFLICTIONS, BUT NO BROKEN BONES

Ps. 34:20

… Many a bruise have I had by sickness, bereavement, depression, slander, and opposition; but the bruise has healed, and there has been no compound fracture of a bone …

March 26 — THE CARE OF THE POOR

Ps. 41:3

… See how in the hour of sickness the God of the poor will bless the man who cares for the poor! The everlasting arms shall stay up his …

March 25 — REFRESHING SLEEP

Prov. 3:24

… 3:24 Is the reader likely to be confined for a while to the bed by sickness? Let him go upstairs without distress with this promise upon his …

Stephen's Death

Acts 7:59

… Now our Lord is generally described as sitting, but it was as if the sympathizing Lord had risen up to draw near to His suffering servant, eager both …

Feb. 1 — NEVER DESPAIR

Mal. 4:2

… us the night must be short; and when the morning cometh, all the sickness and sorrow of our soul will be over for ever. Light, warmth, joy, and …

A Leap Year Sermon

1 Corinthians 15:8

… There was an end of his suffering and weakness here below, but the consolation of that last word to them, and of the joy that beamed from his …

'Cases of Conscience'

Psalm 38:4

… There have been some with whom I have myself had to deal, who have had sore sickness through conviction of sin and, for a little season, it did …

God's Goodness Leading to Repentance

Romans 2:4

… Another says, "I never missed a day's work and never was kept away from business by suffering of any kind. I scarcely know what aches and pains …

Joseph Attacked by the Archers

Genesis 49:23

… But a worse trial than this was to overtake him. The archers of TEMPTATION shot at him. Here I know not how to express myself. I would that …

A Golden Sentence

John 4:34

… That great crowning work of suffering and death, by which souls were effectually redeemed, was no unwilling service. He said He had a baptism to be baptized with …

The Shrill Trumpet of Admonition

Jeremiah 48:11

… My fellow Christians, I speak to you this morning very earnestly— the more so because I have experienced and I fear at the present moment I am suffering …

Seeking Richly Rewarded

Psalm 34:10

… I think the words were these, "If it were a good thing for God's people for sin, Satan, sorrow and affliction to be abolished, Christ would blot …

The Backslider's Door of Hope

Hosea 2:15

… He sent them affliction after affliction. He took away from them those mercies which they had prostituted for the purpose of sin. He made them poor, sick and …

Vanities and Verities

2 Corinthians 4:18

… keenly sensitive, but he never tries to shelter himself from any sort of suffering if it is necessary to accomplish his lifework. Thus he pressed steadily on through …

The Security of the Church

Psalm 125:2

… in a furnace like silver seven times, is ever a gainer by the trial. Ah! ye that hate the church, she shall ever be a thorn in your …

Evening, August 11

2Th 2:16

… Let sickness prostrate us, have we not seen hundreds of believers as happy in the weakness of disease as they would have been in the strength of hale …

Free Grace a Motive for Free Giving

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… He has said, "I will make all his bed in his sickness," so that if the woe comes from disease, He will cheer us there. He will anoint …

A Song, A solace, A Sermon and a Summons

Psalm 136:1

… Let us bless Him that we are not deprived of our reason, or stretched upon the bed of sickness. Let us praise Him that we are not cast …

God's Mercy Going Before

Psalm 59:10

… Well, that sickness has kept you out of a sin into which you were beginning to slide. You have lately been overtaken with a very terrible loss. Yes …

Morning, November 17

Ro 11:36

… Do you enjoy happier times than you once had? Have you been restored from sickness, and has your sorrow been turned into peace and joy? Then give him …

Evening, April 22

Ps 91:5

… or the noise of thieves, or fancied appearances, or the shriek of sudden sickness or death. We live in the world of death and sorrow, we may therefore …

Morning, August 14

Ps 92:4

… hard as thou wilt;” and in a similar spirit you may say, “Send sickness, poverty, losses, crosses, persecution, what thou wilt, thou hast forgiven me , and my soul …

The Chariots Of Amminadib

Solomon 6:12

… We sat down at the feet of Jesus and thought everything little compared with Him! Suffering for His sake would have been a gain! And reproach would have …

Morning, February 28

Ps 62:5

… We shall die soon; and then our “expectation is from him.” Do we not expect that when we lie upon the bed of sickness he will send angels …