Suffering & Affliction

Compassion on the Ignorant

Hebrews 5:2

… Alas, there is another and still more wearisome trial of faith and patience, for out of those who profess to be converted there are many who cause us …

The Sinful Made Sinless

1 John 3:4

… Grace makes us ready for the silent chamber of sickness, or for the grave of bereavement, or for the social joy of the little children that clamber about …

The Heart Full and the Mouth Closed

Ezekiel 16:62

… Yet few there are that sound them—— Sin and Love." Only our suffering Lover, the Lord Jesus Christ, knows the two to their perfection. May we be helped …

Pleading Prayer

Psalm 119:49

… He takes good care of His fighting servants, His suffering servants, His plowing servants and His sowing servants—and so you would expect Him to do. A good …

Sin—Its Springhead, Stream and Sea

Psalm 106:7

… It is no common sin which thus provokes the long-suffering Lord. Many a sin God has endured patiently, but in this case He is provoked to anger …

One Worker Preparing For Another

1 Chronicles 22:14

… Come poverty or wealth, come sickness or health, come life or death—as long as there is breath in my body—I will go on with the work …

Altogether Lovely

Solomon 5:16

… O may God be pleased to arouse you from this lethargy, and make you mourn your sad estate! Even if an affliction should be needful to bring you …

The Voices of Our Days

Job 32:7

… hand finds to do, do it with all your might." And days of sickness say, "In the day of adversity, consider." Each day, whether bright or dim, clear …

The Best Cloak

Isaiah 59:17

… It is to comfort us in affliction. It is to adorn us at all times. But I should like to say one or two other things on this …

"All of One"

Hebrews 2:11-13

… For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has He hid His face from Him; but when He cried unto Him, He heard …

The Best of All—god Is With Us

1 Chronicles 22:18

… And the Lord has said, "I will never leave you"—in poverty, in sickness, in slander and reproach, in depression of spirit, in the hour of death, in …

Christ the Tree of Life

Revelation 22:2

… Oh, may God grant that none of you may die from spiritual sickness when these leaves can heal you! And may none of you be filling yourselves with …

To the Saddest of the Sad

Exodus 6:9

… if he be slow to you it is out of patience and long-suffering to others. He knows best when and how to save his people. Remember that …

Wanted!—Volunteers

2 Chronicles 17:16

… But if You choose, rather, to send me sickness and lay me on a bed of languishing, still I will serve You." In some such way I can …

Simeon

Luke 2:25

… She was laid on a bed of sickness—the father and mother stood beside the bed. The solemn moment came when she must die. The father leaned over …

Holy Longings

Psalm 119:131

… While affliction is greatly used of God to cleanse the heart, yet a very noble, soul-filling sense of the love of God is the truest sanctifier in …

The Sons of God

Romans 8:16

… Thou in the midst of thy sickness and infirmity art girt about with robes of glory, which make the spirits in heaven look down upon the earth with …

A Sad Interior and a Cheery Messenger

Mark 16:10

… We cannot think of His suffering and grief without mourning and weeping. Then, dear Friends, I should think that the eleven, as they sat together, must have mourned …

The Keeper of the Vineyard

Isaiah 27:3

… When we take a delight in suffering for His name's sake, then God will come and meet us for certain. We need not think that, under such …

Christ's Word with You

Matthew 11:28

… Now, if within these walls there is a case in which poverty combines with sickness and disease. And if that poverty and disease are the result of vice …

Paul Apprehended and Apprehending

Philippians 3:12

… reads of their intense suffering, one naturally shrinks from it and says, "I thank God that I am not called to endure that trial." But yet, if we …

God's Works Made Manifest

John 9:3

… Now, then, perhaps all this suffering is permitted that the work of God may be manifest in your afflic- tions by your holy patience, your submission to the …

The Philosophy and Propriety of Abundant Praise

Psalm 145:7

… Let rebellious spirits murmur as they may, goodness is enthroned in Jehovah's kingdom and evil and suffering are intruders! God is good towards all His creatures and …

Plain Words With the Careless

Luke 8:28

… Take that as a sign of mercy, and pray that the long-suffering of God may lead you to repentance. I hope and pray that his having spared …

Behold The Lamb!

John 1:36

… O fellow Sinner, you may approach your God without being plunged into suffering yourself, or needing to bring a victim with you, for Jesus Christ has been brought …

Present Privilege And Future Favor

Deuteronomy 33:27

… We do but think of Him in the Person of His dear Son and a glimpse of the suffering face of the Redeemer constrains us to labor. We …

Jesus The Shepherd

Isaiah 40:11

… He went to trial and condemnation and then to the mount of doom to suffer, bleed and die. Here is the Good Shepherd—the Good Shepherd bleeding for …

Faith's Sure Foundation

1 Peter 2:6

… We believe that because He was God, He was able to undertake the stupendous labor of our redemption and that His holy life and suffering death are, because …

Believers as Blessed as the Blessed Virgin

Luke 11:27

… she needed it all, for she was called to a great fight of affliction because of it. Usually all special blessings involve special trials. The thorn in the …

The Question of Questions

John 9:35

… Upon you shines the light of another Sunday—long-suffering is not yet exhausted. The Gospel is still preached in your ears—the day of hope is not …

How A Man's Conduct Comes Home To Him

Proverbs 14:14

… Life will be more full of trembling and trial and manifest less of buoyancy and joy of spirit. Broken bones make hard traveling and even when they are …

Decided Ungodliness

Jeremiah 5:3

… You have been corrected by poverty and, possibly, you have also been stricken by affliction, but all that has not touched your heart—you "have refused to return …

First Printed Works.–Author, Publishers, and Readers

… I know nothing which can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a …

Not Bound Yet

2 Timothy 2:9

… with others who are suffering through ill health, or mental decline; with some who groan under Satanic temptation and various forms of mental trial causing awful depression of …

Great Spoil

Psalm 119:162

… What?" "Which?" "When?" and to be confused by dubious voices is a great affliction—suspense is killing. How delightful to turn over the sacred page and find in …

"Forget You, I Will Not"

Isaiah 44:21

… Your name Engraved on My heart does forever remain! The palms of My hands while I look on, I see The wounds I received when suffering for thee …

Creation’s Groans and the Saints’ Sighs

Romans 8:22-23

… It is just as subject to sickness as before, pain thrills quite as sharply through the heart of the saint as the sinner, and he who lives near …

"Waters To Swim In"

… An infinite degree of merit must reside in the sufferings of our blessed Lord! Such sufferings as they were, of body, of mind, and of spirit—the suffering …

The Lifting Up of the Bowed Down

Luke 13:10-13

… Eighteen years' despondency must be a frightful affliction and yet there is an escape out of it, for though the devil may take 18 years to forge a …

Jesus Calling

Matthew 11:28

… When a man of a tender spirit is looking after the poor, the needy, the sorrowing and the suffering, he cannot help being happy because he is doing …