Suffering & Affliction

Chiding and Cheering

John 14:9

… Sometimes, in deep quietude of spirit, our heart has been giving itself to devotion—it may have been a time of suffering. The world was all shut out …

Instability

Genesis 49:4

… And you who make no pretensions to religion, just make your trial the more easy for there will be no need for any dispute concerning you. When the …

Psalm 120

Psalm 120

… Let those who dwell with such pugilistic company console themselves with the remembrance that both David and David's Lord endured the same trial. It is the lot …

One of the Master's Choice Sayings

Matthew 14:16

… We need not be "cumbered" either with much serving or with much suffering. Our surroundings are not to be our sovereigns, but our subjects. We are, in all …

Gray Hairs

Hosea 7:9

… Oh, I pray you make the trial, for it would be better for you to doubt and fear than to go to Hell blindfolded with carnal security! Young …

Lessons From the Malta Fire

Acts 28:2

… As you have the severer trial, you must be the more earnest in overcoming it! II. I will say no more about the cold lest you begin to …

Stephen and Saul

Acts 7:58

… of rebellion in his heart! Think it no new thing and no strange trial, for this was the case with the young man named Saul when he was …

Unity In Christ

John 17:20

… so very near the Savior's heart at such a time of overwhelming trial must have been held by Him to be priceless beyond all price! It is …

God's Jewels

Maalachi 3:17

… Because of these missing jewels, the long-suffering of God waits. But the day is coming—its axles are hot with speed—when sardius, topaz and carbuncle shall …

The Happy Beggar

Psalm 40:17

… We are needy in suffering and laboring, in watching and in fighting. Every spiritual engagement does but discover another phase of our need! And, Brothers and Sisters, we …

A Clear Conscience

Psalm 119:6

… So will it be in the time of trial, too. I admire Job, notwithstanding the testiness he seemed to have, and I wonder who would not be testy …

A Fatal Deficiency

Romans 8:9

… Can't you see how the great ones of the Church, who call themselves the bishops and shepherds of the flock, are suffering this nation to drift away …

A Question for Communicants

Exodus 12:26

… The long-suffering of God delays Him till sinners are brought in—till the full number of His elect shall be accomplished—but He is not delaying! He …

Secondhand

John 18:34

… we do! Only you know that we are altogether unconscious of any such suffering! We really have been under the notion that we very much enjoyed ourselves while …

Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit

John 19:30

… We have sometimes heard it said, "How could Christ, in so short a time, bear suffering which should be equivalent to the torments—the eternal torments of Hell …

Christ the Overcomer of the World

John 16:33

… It may come in the form of temporal trial of some shape or other. It may come in the form of temptation which will alight upon us from …

Hypocrisy

Luke 12:1

… These are the keen detectors of impostures; suffering, and pain, and death, for Christ’s sake, are not to be endured by mere pretenders. But in this silken …

The First Fruit of the Spirit

Galatians 5:22

… Cross—sing it, also, in reference to the Holy Spirit and His long-suffering! He looks at us from within and, therefore, He sees the chambers of imagery …

David's Dying Song

2 Samuel 23:5

… There is not a pious father or mother here, who is suffering in the family, but may have that trial taken away yet. Faith is as omnipotent as …

The Perfuming of the Heart

Romans 5:5

… Now the pity of God towards the suffering I can understand because of the goodness of His Nature. The kindness of God towards the needy I can comprehend …

Moab Is My Washpot

Psalm 60:8

… But the godly husband had learned to thank the Lord for the discipline of this trial. Being once at a Presbytery dinner, alone, amidst a group of moderates …

The Shining of the Face of Moses

Exodus 34:29-36

… The man Moses was very meek and so to hide the brightness of his face was a pleasure and not a trial to him. Like many a lovely …

Lessons From Nature

Psalm 104:17-18

… The fiercer the trial the stronger the men. The church of God, like the fabled Salamander, has lived and flourished amid the flames, and has seemed to feed …

Our Service For Christ Never Finished

Luke 17:7-10

… I mean this—we do not expect freedom from trial. Do you? We read of Abraham as being sorely tried and wonderfully prevailing. And then we come upon …

The King's Mowings

Amos 7:1

… There shall be no death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor pain, nor trial of any kind—all shall be happiness for all shall be holiness! And then, as …

Onward!

Philippians 3:13

… When we think of the saints departed and remember their patience in suffering, their diligence in labor, their ardor, their self-denial, their humility, their tears, their prayers …

The Two "Comes"

Revelation 22:17

… I suppose the trial of sorrow will always give a keener edge to the desire of Christ's coming. Luther, on one occasion, when much discouraged, said, "May …

The Sure Triumph Of The Crucified One

Isaiah 52:13-15

… gunboat? Shall we convert the Hottentots by gunpowder? We have had a little trial of these carnal weapons and some admire the success, but they may live to …

Jesus In Our Midst

John 20:19

… No considerations of domestic suffering or of personal pain. No remembrance of the trials of the week, or even the present temptations of Satan shall avail to keep …

Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth

2 Timothy 2:15

… built upon the quicksand will fall with a crash in the hour of trial! Do not be satisfied with anything short of a deep foundation, cut in the …

The Necessity of Growing Faith

2 Thessalonians 1:3

… This is a time of depression in trade, when many are suffering need and almost all find their means decreased. We need to be rich in faith, for …

Our Own Dear Shepherd

John 10:14

… He knows the secret ins and outs of each of us better than any one of us knows himself! He knows our trials—the particular trial under which …

Religion a Present Concern

… In the darkest night of trial, looking to Christ will clear the ebon sky. When the darkness seems thick, like that of Egypt, “darkness that might be felt …

Abraham, A Pattern To Believers

Hebrews 11:9

… I think it was that he might be tried and that in the trial Graces might be developed which could never have come out otherwise. And you are …

The Anxious Enquirer

Job 23:3

… A man is never made thoroughly useful until he has passed through suffering. I do not think there is much good done by a man who has never …

Disobedience to the Gospel

Romans 10:16

… have needed so many ministers, so much pleading, so many years of long-suffering on God's part and, above all, that we should have needed the display …

Divine Gentleness Acknowledged

Psalm 18:35

… The timing of heavy trial is of very great importance. If I had lost my friend a year ago what should I have done? But just now it …

A Glorious Church

Ephesians 5:25-27

… The palms of My hands while I look on, I see The wounds I received when suffering for you." Now let us leave this point, only reminding you …

Citizenship In Heaven

Philippians 3:20

… I fear that party strife is a serious trial to Believers, and I cannot reconcile our heavenly citizenship with the schemes of the hustling and the riot of …

The Saddest Cry From the Cross

Matthew 27:46

… And, certainly, my Brothers and Sisters, this cry was not occasioned by unbelief You know that, sometimes, a child of God in sore trial and with many inward …