Suffering & Affliction

The Stronghold

Nahum 1:7

… If you can sing His praises on the bed of sickness and extol Him in the fire of a sore bereavement, that will be grand! The praises of …

Royal Emblems for Loyal Subjects

2 Samuel 23:4

… Tried Believer, after all your afflictions there remains a rest for the people of God and if, just now, you are tried and vexed by some extraordinary trial …

Witnesses for God

Isaiah 43:10

… It is a great trial when those whom we love are continually suffering. We wish we could bear their pains awhile and give them respite, yet no greater …

A Hearer In Disguise

1 Kings 14:6

… But when sickness comes and when affliction falls heavily upon you—when you have trial after trial and you, yourself, begin to get gray with many cares, and …

Morning, March 3

Is 48:10

… affliction come—God has chosen me. Poverty, thou mayst stride in at my door, but God is in the house already, and he has chosen me. Sickness, thou …

The Church's Probation

Psalm 66:10

… gives to His servants is that of trial. He often tests them by trials, by bereavements, by temporal losses, by sickness in body, by personal infirmity, by slander …

The Gospel Cordial

Proverbs 31:6

… and God sends affliction to His own beloved ones for their good and for His Glory. 4. When Jesus heard that, He said, This sickness is not unto …

A Procession of Cross-bearers

Mark 10:21

… To others, a wearing sickness which scarcely permits them to leave their bed. To others, an affliction which, while it allows them a considerable measure of bodily vigor …

Our Lord's Humanity a Sweet Source of Comfort

Daniel 10:18

… Others endure the affliction of poverty—with all their economy and industry, they find it difficult to provide things honest in the sight of all men. Some true …

Why the Heavenly Robes are White

Revelation 7:14

… and, therefore, whatever I may have to endure daily by way of trial or suffering, there is no punishment in it! There may be my Father's loving …

Evening, August 17

Jn 11:4

Evening, August 17 Go To Morning Reading “This sickness is not unto death.” John 11:4 From our Lord’s words we learn that there is a limit …

Man Unknown To Man

Proverbs 14:10

… You sit alone and keep silent and you say in your heart, "I am the man that has seen affliction." But a host of others have seen affliction …

Soul-threshing

Isaiah 28:27

… but this, Lord! 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 …

Faith Tried and Triumphing

Job 13:15

… All the saints meet with trial. I know a dear friend who is suffering just now, who says that he was occasionally afflicted with a fear that he …

Love's Medicines and Miracles

Isaiah 38:17

… Well, then, again I say unto you, count it not strange concerning the fiery trial, as though some strange thing had happened to you—for the like affliction …

Tokens For Good

Psalm 86:17

… I do not say that any of you may wish for affliction—you will have enough of it without wishing for it—but I do avow my belief …

Concerning Death

Job 30:23

… JOB suffered from a terrible sickness which filled him with pain both day and night. It is supposed that, in addition to his grievous eruptions upon the skin …

A Visit to the Harvest Field

James 5:7-8

… Suppose a man should be impatient under suffering. Will it diminish his suffering? Will it increase the probabilities of his restoration? We all know that the irritability of …

"Rest in the Lord"

Psalm 37:7

… I cannot see the reason, but I know that the trial is sent in love. I am certain of that." When another trial befalls, child-like confidence in …

Our Leader Through the Darkness

Isaiah 50:10

… Certainly, to suffer is the road to the land where there is no suffering—and to be in present darkness may be the nearest way to eternal light …

Sarah and Her Daughters

Isaiah 51:2

… Then there came, a little while after, that great trial of faith which must have touched Sarah, though its full force fell on her husband. She observed the …

Psalm 149

Psalm 149

… Upon their beds of sickness. a) Because it is God's will they should suffer. b) Because affliction is often a proof of God's love. c) Because …

A Good Man in An Evil Case

Psalm 55:22

… And if you feel that your burden is from the Lord—if the King's arms are stamped upon the affliction or trial that comes to you—straightway …

The Blind Man's Eyes Opened—or, Practical Christianity

John 9:3

… The ruling passion bore Him on through danger and suffering—and made Him calmly defy all opposition. He had come into the world to bless men and He …

Mature Faith—Illustrated By Abraham's Offering Up Isaac

Genesis 22:2

… Perhaps today you are suffering under an affliction which is grieving all the powers of your nature. Perhaps the Lord has been pleased to take away from you …

The Suffering Savior's Sympathy

Hebrews 2:18

… He obtained that tender temper through suffering, by being Himself tempted. The man that has seen affliction, when he is blessed of God, has the disposition to cheer …

The Judgment Upon Zacharias

Luke 1:20

… And who knows but I may be addressing some poor woman here who, in the depth of affliction, bodily suffering, and poverty, nevertheless rejoices in God with all …

Unparalleled Suffering

1 Peter 3:18

… I admit that there is much about this form of trial which should tend to make it a light affliction, for we ought to take it joyfully when …

"They Were Tempted"

Hebrews 11:37

… God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial! "What son is there whom the Father chastened not?" "Of which you are all …

Fullness of Joy Our Privilege

1 John 1:4

… is not in this world, your affliction is. Poverty will sometimes be too heavy a cross for you to sing under. Sickness sometimes casts you upon a bed …

Christian Resignation

Matthew 26:39

… He who is, in Himself, Wisdom Incarnate, did, Himself, condescend to enter the school of suffering—there we learn that important lesson of the Christian life—obedience to …

A Discourse Upon True Blessedness Here and Hereafter

James 1:12

… It is true the curse has fallen on the world and man is born to endure toil and suffering in tilling a thorn-bearing earth and earning his …

Paul's Desire to Depart

Philippians 1:23

… Many deaths are preceded by a long season of sickness, and then I think we might picture them by the departure of a ship from its moorings. There …

Our Heavenly Father's Pity

Psalm 103:13

… Look upon my affliction and my pain. And what follows? "Take the affliction and the pain away"? No! 18. And forgive all my sins. David will be quite …

The Minister in These Times

… would learn it in the chamber of suffering. I would not wish for any man a long time of sickness; and pain; but a twist now and then …

Deliverance From the Pit

Job 33:24

… And if it were possible to abolish sickness and suffering, where would men go in the wantonness of their strength? Does not this very affliction often chide man …

The Tenses

2 Corinthians 1:10

… But some of you find it to be a trial to have scantiness in the home, or sickness in your own person, or one who is dear to …

The Prosperous Man's Reminder

Hosea 13:5-8

… God, who knows your frame knew that you were not able to bear the trial of prosperity and, therefore, He has kept you where you are—more safe …

Our Compassionate High Priest

Hebrews 5:2

… The sons and daughters of affliction were those who mostly sought the Divine oracle and desired to have communion with God—therefore the High Priest needed not only …

Sentence Of Death, The Death Of Self-trust

2 Corinthians 1:9

… must not be forgotten that he appears to have been suffering, at the same time, grievous sickness of body and that the multiple, together, caused very deep depression …