Suffering & Affliction

Self-destroyed, Yet Saved

Hosea 13:9

… They have been smitten with sickness—those same strong young fellows who never had any sickness and who thought that they could indulge their passions to the utmost …

A Program Never Carried Out

Luke 15:20

… the very sight of his awful misery, the lines of his sorrow and sickness that would at once touch your heart! As you would look at him, you …

The Best Friend

Proverbs 27:10

… You recollect your father's appeals to you, in his long sickness, when he pleaded with you to take heed to your ways and not neglect the things …

Holy Longings

Psalm 119:20

… We would leave all other matters with Him as to wealth or poverty, health or sickness, honor or shame, life or death if He would but give us …

Substitution

2 Corinthians 5:21

… a man of suffering and of woe; of pain and trouble; of anxiety and fear; of trouble and of doubt; of temptation and of trial; of weakness and …

A String Of Pearls

1 Peter 1:3-5

… Suppose that man's body could be altogether new born, and he could receive a new body pure from all sickness—it would be a great mercy. But …

Anecdotes from the Pulpit

… Seneca persuaded his friend to bear his affliction quietly, because he was the emperor’s favourite, telling him that it was not lawful for him to complain whilst …

The Last Year at Waterbeach and Cambridge

… air, In search of a home and a rest; A balm for the sickness of care, — A bliss for a bosom unblest.” Yet he found it not, for …

The Withered Hand

Matthew 12:10

… Sabbath! Christ did not want their health that morning—He looked for their sickness that He might illustrate His healing power. He did not want any greatness in …

God's People—or Not God's People

Hosea 2:23

… He puts an obstacle in their path—perhaps some sickness or poverty. When men are desperate in wickedness, God has a way of stopping them. Even in their …

Desires Towards God—a Sermon For The Weak

Psalm 38:9

… If great efforts are put forth to build or endow a hospital, you do not say, "Sickness is a desirable thing, for all this money is spent upon …

The Exeter-Hall Sermon to Young Men

Psalm 116:16

… my work and worn with sickness, I am persuaded that years are having their effect upon me! Yet, when I recover from sickness I feel young again—and …

Heman's Sorrowful Psalm

Psalm 88:13

… Read verse nine—"My eyes mourns by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon You." That is a blessed style of praying, when the prayers are …

Storming the Battlements

Jeremiah 5:10

… Go ye up against her, O death! go ye against her, O affliction! Take away that battlement, it is not the Lord’s. Ye shall live on me …

“Through Much Tribulation”

… Sickness is a terrible thing, more especially when it is accompanied with pain, when the poor body is racked to an extreme, so that the spirit fails within …

Future Punishment A Fearful Thing

Hebrews 10:31

… Would a father suffer his children to pine in sickness and die when it was in his power to prevent it? Certainly not. Since, then, the great God …

A Proclamation from the King of Kings

Jeremiah 3:12

… They had suffered the loss of all things because they had departed from their God and yet they had not learned the lesson which affliction was meant to …

The Vanguard and Rereward of the Church

Isaiah 52:12

… I know not what is meant by the battle of Armageddon, but sometimes I fear we are to expect trial and trouble in years to come; but certain …

A Blow For Puseyism

John 6:63

… And now there is another grand trial to see whether men can live in a spiritual religion and that trial has come to prove just this—that none …

Two Visions

Zechariah 1:8-21

… for I was but a little displeased and they helped forward the affliction. Therefore thus says the Lord; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: My house shall …

The Privileges of Trial

It is said, that when the stars cannot be seen during the day from the ordinary level of the earth, if one should go down into a dark …

July 7 — A MOUNTAIN CHOIR

Isa. 49:13

… May we not also make mountains of difficulty, and trial, and mystery, and labor become occasions for praise unto our God? "Break forth into singing, O mountains!" This …

July 19 — HEAVY DUTY SHOES

Deut. 33:25

… This day we may look for trial, and for work which will require energy, but we may just as confidently look for equal strength. This word given to …

A Refreshing Canticle

Song 1:4

… affliction might tear your flesh—yet, if that would bring you near your Lord and keep you near Him, you might thank Him even for the affliction and …

June 27 — THANK HIM; DWELL ACCEPTABLY

Ps. 140:13

… Perhaps, for a moment, the righteous are staggered when their integrity results in severe trial; but assuredly the day shall come when they shall bless their God that …

Nov. 29 — KNOW HOW TO WAIT

Isa. 28:16

… deliberate, and so shall be able to act wisely in the hour of trial. He shall not haste in his expectations, craving his good things at once and …

April 9 — THE BIBLE'S SUPREME PLACE

Ps. 119:165

… For the fiery trial he is prepared, and counts it not strange, so as to be utterly cast down by it. He is neither stumbled by prosperity, as …

Feb. 26 — TRUTH ESTABLISHED

Prov. 12:19

… Time tests it, but it right well endures the trial. If, then, I have spoken the truth, and have for the present to suffer for it, I must …

Sept. 9 — FEAR HAS ITS PLACE

Prov. 28:14

… Let us not repeat his trial, but abide by his verdict.

Dec. 24 — OVER JORDAN WITH SINGING

Deut. 33:29

… He whispers that the Lord will not deliver us out of the trial which is looming in the distance, and he threatens that the last ounce will break …

March 19 — BECOMING FIT FOR GLORY

Ps. 84:11

… He will certainly send us trial, but He will give grace in proportion thereto. We may be called to labor, and to suffer, but with the call there …

Our Hiding Place

Isaiah 32:2

… I invite all of you who are afraid of the storms of doubt, or trial, or temptation, or of the wrath of God, to put your trust in …

Aug. 9 — PRUNING FOR FRUIT-BEARING

John 15:2

… Still, purging is sometimes wrought by the Word apart from trial, and this takes away whatever appeared rough in the flavor of the promise. We shall by the …

Dec. 9 — THE "ALL" OF BELIEF

Mark 9:23

… The worst of it is, that we can believe God about everything except the present pressing trial. This is folly. Come, my soul, shake off such sinfulness, and …

Feb. 9 — THE DROSS PURGED

Zech. 13:9

… Sustain us under the trial and complete the process of our purifying, and we will be thine for ever and ever.

Aug. 28 — OUT OF ANY CIRCUMSTANCE

Ps. 55:16

… My Ziklag is in ashes, and men speak of stoning me; but I encourage my heart in the Lord, who will bear me through this trial as He …

Hindrances to Prayer

1 Peter 3:7

… With all your grief, bowed into the very dust by affliction, still, like your Lord and Master, cry, "Nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will," and …

Where Is the Lord?

Isaiah 63:11-14

… In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them: in His love and in His pity He redeemed them; and He bore …

Constant, Instant, Expectant

Romans 12:12

… Is it when he is in distress? Doth not nature itself teach us that in time of affliction we should especially draw near to God in prayer? When …

Christian Conversation

Psalm 145:11

… us tell that when we have been bowed down beneath a bed of affliction, so that we could not even move, the everlasting arms have been around us …