Suffering & Affliction

The Statute of David for the Sharing of the Spoil

1 Samuel 30:21-26

… Then is the time for heart-sickness to come on. These warriors may very well have been perplexed and, perhaps, they feared that God was against them—and …

Letters on Private and Public Affairs, 1856-1890

… Now that the penny post is a public man's sorest trial, the shorter we can make our epistles, the better. How we wish some of our correspondents …

Trial by the Word

Psalm 105:19

… Every good man is not only tested by trial, but is the better for it. To the evil man affliction brings evil, he rebels against the Lord, and …

Psalm 25

Psalm 25

… Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. We may observe here, that sickness and weakness of the body come from sin, and is …

My Solace in My Affliction

… Moreover, it is noteworthy that whatever his trial may have been, whether it was a sickness or a disaster, or any other manner of adversity, he refers to …

Where Go You?

Job 23:10

… I am half afraid that they even feel it a trial to see me, poor creature that I am. They are timid in speech, though they would be …

Mercy for the Meanest of the Flock

Micah 4:6

… his bed in his sickness," is said concerning a sick saint. The Lord makes your bed, dear Brothers and Sisters, if you are suffering bodily pain! Some are …

The Mission of Affliction

2 Samuel 16:11

… The Lord has ordered him." Now don't we tonight say, "I could have borne that other trial if God had sent that"? Well, accept your present trial …

A Time of Finding for Lost Sheep

Ezekiel 34:16

… Besides the sickness of sin, they have upon them a sickness partly engendered by the strokes of those who drove them away. Then comes in most blessedly the …

Psalm 116

Psalm 116

… By affliction and trial. The Hebrew literally means to hang down, to be pendulous, to swing, to wave—as a bucket in a well, or as the slender …

Threshing

… Any affliction but this.” How idle it is to expect a pleasant trial; for it would then be no trial at all. Almost every really useful medicine is …

The Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

… Our first observation will be that THE WORLD IS FULL OF AFFLICTION. This story is but one among a thousand based upon an unhappy occurrence. "A certain man …

The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Spirit

Proverbs 18:14

… I must also add my belief that no spirit can so well endure sickness, loss, trial or sorrow as a perfectly-consecrated spirit The man who is free …

The Vital Force

Hebrews 10:38

… who makes the beds of His people in their sickness—you shall find it blessed living, triumphant suffering! Should the just man be called to banishment, should he …

Shoes of Iron, and Strength Sufficient: A New Year's Promise

Deuteronomy 33:24-25

… In proportion as he sends the trial he sends the help. Be not, therefore, afraid of great trial: on the contrary, look for it, and when it comes …

Secret Sins Driven Out By Stinging Hornets

Deuteronomy 7:20

… He told me that what with affliction and experience the Lord had wiped pride completely out of him. I said, "He must have hit you very hard, Brother …

The Procession of Sorrow

John 19:16

… 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 …

A Plain Talk Upon An Encouraging Topic

Jonah 2:7

… But now, whenever we read in Scripture of what happened to a man of faith in the day of trial, we conclude that the same will happen to …

The Minister’s Fainting Fits

… If a scanty cupboard is rendered a severer trial by the sickness of a wife or the loss of a child, and if ungenerous remarks of hearers are …

Good Advice For Troublous Times

Isaiah 26:20

… of poverty? Christ is stronger than poverty! Afraid of sickness? The power of God will sustain you while suffering from the most terrible disease that can possibly come …

Prayer to God in Trouble an Acceptable Sacrifice

Psalm 50:15

… always mistrust Him? The devil tells me, O Master, that this affliction which I am suffering will work me ill. I do not believe it! Not for a …

Everyday Religion

Galatians 2:20

… Faith teaches us to depend upon the power of God to help us in a trial and through the trial and in this way we are no longer …

"Persecuted, But Not Forsaken"

… meet with this kind of trial. Possibly, some Christian sitting here is saying, "I do not know much about that sort of affliction." Well, be very thankful if …

A Sermon for a Winter's Evening

John 18:18

… Do not seek to set the trial aside—use no wrong means to escape from affliction—drink your ordained cup! Though Peter's sword is handy, put it …

The Song of a City, and the Pearl of Peace

Isaiah 26:3

… Or suppose that a temporal trial ruffles the mind; the uneasy one turns to Scripture, and he finds that affliction is not sent as a legal punishment, but …

Psalm 107

Psalm 107

… Being bound in affliction and iron. Many prisoners have been thus doubly fettered in heart and hand; or the text may mean that affliction becomes as an iron …

What and Whence Are These?

Revelation 7:13-14

… Speak ye of the prophets; which of them escaped without trial? Come ye to the apostles; which of these enjoyed a life of ease? Did they not all …

Contentment

Philippians 4:11

… suffering bear it like heroes,—martyrs to pain, and yet not uttering a complaint. There was good John Calvin, all his life long a victim of sickness; he …

Sanctified Sorrow

Isaiah 54:11

… consolation for ourselves? Depend upon it, Brothers and Sisters, our period of trial and suffering will come to a close and it will be overruled in the gracious …

The Unchanging God Cheering Jacob in His Change of Dwelling Place

Genesis 46:1-4

… Abraham went down into Egypt and he met with trouble there and brought away from it one named Hagar, who was a great trial in his household. In …

Psalm 142

Psalm 142

… of the problem of suffering, yet we frequently find ourselves in the position of Job, in regard to this or that particular affliction. There are sorrows so far …

Psalm 13

Psalm 13

… If I knew that the Beloved were only gone away for trial, and further humiliation, and not smoked out of the house with new provocations, I would forgive …

The Nobleman's Faith

John 4:46-53

… The particular form of trial which visited this nobleman was the sickness of his child. He had a little son whom he dearly loved and who was down …

Psalm 102

Psalm 102

… The prosperity of a church or an individual often followed by declension; worldly aggrandisement frequently succeeded by affliction; great joy in the Lord very generally succeeded by trial …

Consolation Proportionate to Spiritual Sufferings

2 Corinthians 1:5

… We must bear suffering and affliction; therefore, let us endure it cheerfully. Some of us are the officers in God’s regiments, and we are the mark of …

On Humbling Ourselves before God

1 Peter 5:6

… Certain of us are never long together without affliction and trial. Like salamanders, we live in the flame, passing from fire to fire. As by a succession of …

The Best Burden for Young Shoulders

Lamentations 3:27

… trial, but, alas, old Adam soon lifts up his proud head again! He says, "Ah, you are a favorite of Heaven. Your mountain stands firm. Your affliction has …

Reasons for Turning to the Lord

Hosea 6:1

… If, in the day of adversity they would consider, they would perceive that affliction springs not out of the ground, neither do distresses come by chance, but the …

From Death To Life

1 Samuel 2:6

… God is in life and death, in sickness and in health. This, surely, will soften the pains of sickness and gild the joys of recovery. If you look …

A Caution for Sin-sick Souls

Hosea 5:13

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, ON A LORD'S-DAY EVENING, EARLY IN THE YEAR 1861. "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then …