Suffering & Affliction

The Wall Daubed with Untempered Mortar

Ezekiel 13:10-12

… It comes to some men when they enter upon times of spiritual trial. It is a blessed thing to have this test in this life, for although the …

Psalm 82

Psalm 82

… They are cold when winter comes, withered with age, weak with sickness, and melt away with death, as the meanest: all to ashes. All flesh is as grass …

Two Choice Benedictions

Numbers 6:23-27

… Leave that matter with your God! The future, though it may possibly have trial and trouble, will still be blessed if you are God's servant. One thing …

Divine Sovereignty

Matthew 20:15

… To one man God giveth a long life and uniform health, so that he scarcely knows what it is to have day’s sickness, while another totters through …

Psalm 95

Psalm 95

… It is no small thing which can grieve our long suffering God to the extent which the Hebrew word here indicates, and if we reflect a moment we …

Beauty for Ashes

Isaiah 61:3

… Ashes, too, as the symbol of sorrow, might also indicate having passed through the fire of trial, even as these ashes have been burned. Truly, some of God …

The Best Strengthening Medicine

Hebrews 11:34

… Both in doing and in suffering, if we are earnest and observant, we soon discover our own weakness. "Weakness" is all we possess. "Weakness" meets us everywhere. If …

Psalm 136

Psalm 136

… Our state was once so low as to be at hell's mouth; since then it has been low in poverty, bereavement, despondency, sickness, and heart sorrow, and …

The Plea of Faith

2 Samuel 7:25

… But when faith in all its raggedness and poverty, and sickness about it, goes to God and says, “Lord, I have nothing to recommend me but this, ‘thou …

Daily Blessings for God's People

Psalm 68:19-20

… He makes the bed of his people in their affliction. Even down to the borders of the grave—to the edge of Jordan's river—it is all …

The Ship on Fire—A Voice of Warning

Genesis 19:17

… And what if you should lie upon a bed of sickness? You will have enough to do to bear the pain, to mourn over your weeping wife, and …

The Wandering Bird

Proverbs 27:8

… I may know something about my weakness in the present trial, but I cannot know how I might stagger under another! I would recommend you to be rather …

The Truly Blessed Man

Psalm 1:1-3

… He must suffer pain, or pine in sickness, endure losses and crosses—and yet in it all be a blessed man! Being a man, he is also subject …

None But Jesus—Second Part

John 3:18

… When thou hast faith in Christ it is a great privilege; but recollect that it involves a great trial. You asked for great faith the other night; did …

Mr. Spurgeon as a Literary Man (Continued)

… May you yet be long spared to wield such influence ! God has chastened you not a little by personal and domestic affliction, — thus putting you into the highest …

God in Heaven, and Men on the Sea

Psalm 65:5

… A trial has been love's reply to earnest desire. God's wisdom often chooses to give us a head wind to prevent our rushing upon sunken rocks …

Under the Apple Tree

Song 2:3

… You know a Doctrine beyond all fear of contradiction when you have proved it for yourself by personal test and trial. The bride in the Song as good …

The Crisis Of This World

John 12:31-33

… And more than that, there is the final ending of the trial when the world rejects Christ. As long as you are here, my Hearers, and Christ is …

How To Keep the Heart

Philippians 4:7

… to him; run and tell your Father the first moment you are in affliction. Do this in every thing, in every little thing—“in every thing by prayer …

The Fullness Of Christ—Received!

John 1:16

… A fullness of comfort in affliction, a fullness of guidance in prosperity, a fullness of every Divine attribute, of wisdom, of power, of love. A fullness which it …

The Overflowing Cup

Psalm 23:5

… son, my son"? That was the close of a long trial from his graceless favorite—a trial which had been preceded by many others—in which first one …

Israel's Hope—Or, The Center of the Target

Psalm 130:7

… it came to pass in order that if we are cast into similar trial, we also may resort to the same door of hope. You meet with a …

"Take Heed, Brethren"

Hebrews 3:12

… He who is quite sure of his strength to resist temptation may be also equally certain of his weakness in the hour of trial. God grant us Grace …

Psalm 35

Psalm 35

… David, having showed how compassionate he was to his enemies in their affliction (Psa—35:14), he presently shows (Psa—35:15), how incompassionate, or barbarously cruel rather …

Things to Be Remembered

… begin to settle upon your lees and fancy that there is no more trial for you! Remember them, too, because they will refresh your memories with regard to …

Brief, Silent Prayer

Nehemiah 2:4

… On the land, or on the sea, in sickness or in health, amidst losses or gains, great reverses or good returns, still might he breathe his soul in …

Keeping the Soul Alive

Psalm 22:29

… And, dear Brothers and Sisters, have you ever found, under a severe trial, how difficult it is to exercise the Grace that you before thought you possessed very …

Faith Very Simple

… is, and then get confused by my explanation? I will, however, make one trial, and pray the Lord to make it clear. I am told that on a …

The Hope of Future Bliss

Psalm 17:15

… Trouble has been my lot, and trial has been my portion, but I have ‘a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.’” Bid high; bid him …

'A Greater Than Solomon'

Matthew 12:42

… They are all agog about a racehorse or about a famous trial at law! They are all concerned to talk about the rise and fall of markets and …

The Bed and Its Covering

Isaiah 28:20

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

Carte Blanche

Matthew 15:28

… To have Christ's deaf ear and dumb lips—this was a trial, indeed, and worse than that, to have rough words from such a loving and tender …

Profitable Mixture

Hebrews 4:2

… Whatever trial happened to them they were frightened and began to complain and were ready to rebel. The days of their provoking God were many. Their lusting after …

Sharing Christ's Life

John 14:19

… altogether free from weakness, no longer such as shall be subject to pain, sickness, accident, decay, to ultimate corruption—but a spiritual body, raised in power, in glory …

The Royal Prerogative

Deuteronomy 32:39

… I have seen the ungodly brought to destitution and poverty by their extravagances and brought to sickness and death's door by their lusts—and yet they have …

Lost Through One-Saved Through One

Romans 5:16

… No, it is tantamount to this—that he has had his trial and passed it, for he has received a free pardon from the highest authority in the …

To-morrow

Proverbs 27:1

… They are all settled in his book, and our times are all ordered by his wisdom; whether they be “Times of trial and of grief; Times of triumph …

"I and the Children"

Isaiah 8:18

… They put him down as insane while he is sorrowful, and as idiotic when he is joyous! The world cannot understand a Christian's endurance of trial, but …

Evening, February 27

Mic 5:2

… It was “from everlasting” that he signed the compact with his Father, that he would pay blood for blood, suffering for suffering, agony for agony, and death for …

Marvelous! Marvelous!

Zechariah 8:6

… When we see no passage through our straits, we are sadly apt to conclude that God sees none! He has promised that with every trial He will make …