Suffering & Affliction

Evening, January 6

Eze 33:22

… I am not the only one who is chastened in the night season; let me cheerfully submit to the affliction, and carefully endeavour to be profited thereby. But …

Evening, January 14

Mt 14:30

… Are we nearly engulfed by the boisterous waters of affliction? Let us then lift up our souls unto our Saviour, and we may rest assured that he will …

Christ's Connection With Sinners the Source of His Glory

Isaiah 53:12

… His was the pouring out of a whole soul in all the phases of suffering into which perfect souls can pass. He felt the horror of sin as …

Morning, July 19

De 5:24

… Praise God that you have not been left to the darkness and ignorance which continued prosperity might have involved, but that in the great fight of affliction, you …

Unbelievers Upbraided

Mark 16:14

… That is quite enough trial for you to bear and God will help you to bear it, but you put away the helping hand when you are unbelieving …

Christ Exalted

Hebrews 10:12-13

… one time sit on his Father’s throne; he was a man, a suffering man, a man full of pains and groans, more than mortals have ever known …

Evening, May 20

Ho 11:4

… If we obey not the gentle drawings of his love, he will send affliction to drive us into closer intimacy with himself. Have us nearer he will. What …

Morning, January 27

Jn 1:16

… There is a fulness at all times; a fulness of comfort in affliction; a fulness of guidance in prosperity. A fulness of every divine attribute, of wisdom, of …

"Sitting By"

Luke 5:17

… How can it? It is a pitiful waste of time for yourself and a trial of temper to others. Yet there are many who, like the scribes and …

Morning, August 30

Ps 27:14

… Wait in quiet patience , not rebelling because you are under the affliction, but blessing your God for it. Never murmur against the second cause, as the children of …

The King's Weighings

1 Samuel 2:3

… Let no such person delude himself! At the bar of Divine Justice, the acts of princes and peasants, of lords and laborers, shall have an equal trial and …

Grace Preferred to Gifts

1 Corinthians 12:31

… Perhaps there is to be more trial for you. Possibly there is to be more prosperity—and then you will certainly need more Grace! But, whatever is to …

Not Now, But Hereafter!

Job 21:29-31

… If the affliction which is here accorded to men be not the punishment of sin, we turn to Scripture and discover what that punishment will be, and we …

The Turning Point

Luke 15:20

… Every earnest sermon, every death in your family, every funeral knell for a neighbor, every pricking of conscience, every touch of sickness, sets you a resolving to amend …

Evening, January 12

Job 36:2

… Dumb children are an affliction to their parents. Lord, unloose all thy children’s tongue.

Evening, October 19

Job 35:10

… O thou chief musician, let us not remain songless because affliction is upon us, but tune thou our lips to the melody of thanksgiving.

Psalm 139

Psalm 139

… In all affliction, in all business, a man's best comfort is this, that all he does and even all he thinks, God knows. In the Septuagint we …

The Ear Bored With An Awl

Exodus 21:5

… There will happen Providential changes which take them away from old companions and so give them a little hope of liberty, or there will come times of sickness …

The Good Shepherdess

Solomon 1:7

… I cannot find grass for my flock." And suffering herself from the noontide heat, she finds her little flock suffering, too. And she enquires, "Where do You make …

The Lord Leading—David Following

2 Samuel 5:24

… He had been a thoughtless, careless man, but in his sickness he has peered into eternity and he is now thoughtful and prepared for the preacher's message …

Justification by Faith—Illustrated by Abram’s Righteousness

Genesis 15:6

… If sin be pardoned, we may well bear affliction. “Strike, Lord,” said Luther, “now my sins are gone; strike as hard as thou wilt if transgression be covered …

Good Reasons for a Good Resolution

Isaiah 61:10

… It is true that you or I may lie upon a bed of sickness, and draw near to the gates of death, but I trust that, even then …

Question and Exclamation

Jeremiah 3:19

… Do you wonder that Jacob had so much trial with his sons when you remember what kind of man he was? Are you surprised that David's latter …

Good Cheer For Outcasts

Psalm 147:2

… And Providence may warn them, by the deaths of others and by personal sickness, but they are not to be separated from the earth to which they are …

The Covenant Pleaded

Psalm 74:20

… me to endure such temptation that I shall fall! Do not suffer such affliction to come upon me that I shall be destroyed, for have You not promised …

Choice Food for Pilgrims to Canaan

Exodus 33:14

… My Presence will go with you to the bed of sickness. My Presence will go with you through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. My Presence will …

Do You Know Him?

Philippians 3:10

… I do care for his actions; my soul would sit down and admire those masterly works of holy art—his miracles of humiliation, of suffering, of patience, and …

Gone, Gone Forever

1 Kings 20:40

… It is not fighting a battle for a man to run out of it, to avoid the contest and the trial which comes out of it—yet that …

Love in Chastening

… And so with you; God has been calling to you , and you did not come; Christ said, “Come,” and you would not; He sent affliction, and you would …

"A Peculiar People"

Psalm 4:3

… I am the man that has seen affliction?" Are you, dear Brother? Then you are the very man who ought to pray and to say, "The Lord will …

A Lift for the Prostrate

Mark 1:31

… live here under the same conditions as the rest of us—suffering the same weakness, sickness, sorrow and death as we do—for our sakes. Never think of …

Justification And Glory

Romans 8:30

… The Law, like the God from whom it came, is absolutely immutable and can be satisfied by nothing else than a complete and perfect righteousness at once suffering …

Questions of the Day and THE Question of the Day

Matthew 22:42

… Let us pray that when we are proved and tested we, also, may endure the fiery trial and be found to be pure gold. As they tried our …

The Rule of Grace

Luke 4:27

… They are tried with poverty, with personal sickness, with temptation, with inward conflicts, with fierce persecutions. And God never calls them to these trials out of mere caprice …

Warning and Encouragement

Solomon 5:2

… I do not think we sleep so much, spiritually, when we have bodily affliction, though pains of body frequently make a Christian long for his rest. Nor do …

Wholehearted Religion

Jeremiah 32:39

… unite their hearts upon God and so they have been laid aside by sickness, or the mind has lost its vigor, or the voice has failed and the …

The Two Gatherings

Psalm 50:5

… An amazing thing is that silence of God, that long-suffering with sinners! And another amazing thing is the impudent interpretation which the sinner gives to that silence …

A Plain Man's Sermon

Leviticus 22:21

… human life, even if it is checkered with suffering, poverty and need? Ah, no! Poverty does not work perfection! Sickness does not make perfection! My text stands like …

"Out of Darkness into Light"

Isaiah 49:9

… It may be that some time ago a death happened in the family, or sickness came, or if it was neither of these things, at any rate, the …

The Friend of Sinners

Isaiah 53:12

… Let the trial proceed. What is the accusation? He stands to answer it; he points to his side, his hands, his feet, and challenges Justice to bring anything …