Suffering & Affliction

Job's Sure Knowledge

Job 19:25

… ought to be very careful what we say to those who are suffering affliction and trial, for a word, though it seems to be a very little thing …

A Singular Plea in Prayer

Psalm 41:4

… can see by his prayer that his sins were the heaviest affliction from which he was suffering—"Be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned …

Psalm 129

Psalm 129

… The affliction began early—"from my youth"; and it continued late. The earliest years of Israel and of the Church of God are spent in trial. Babes in …

The Thorn in the Flesh

2 Corinthians 12:7

… A thorn is but a little thing and indicates a painful, but not a killing trial—not a huge, crushing, overwhelming affliction, but a common matter— none the …

Flesh And Spirit—A Riddle

Psalm 73:22-25

… The temptations of poverty and wealth, of honor and reproach, of health and sickness, all tried their power upon him. He had tribulations from without. I need not …

The Agony in Gethsemane

Luke 22:44

… Our Lord's main suffering lay in His soul—His soul-suffering was the soul of His suffering. "A wounded spirit who can bear?" Pain of spirit is …

Jesus Knew What He Would Do

John 6:6

… In the matter of your present trial and trouble, dear Friend, you have been trying to figure out the design of the Almighty, but without success. Don't …

Footsteps Of Mercy

Job 33:23

… WHEN God has distinct and definite purposes of mercy towards an individual, He often begins with stern discipline and brings him low by affliction and sorrow. As the …

Morning, September 2

Mk 1:30

… sickness had entered, fever in a deadly form had prostrated his mother-in-law, and as soon as Jesus came they told him of the sad affliction, and …

Morning, March 8

Ac 14:22

… They were chosen in the furnace of affliction; they were never chosen to worldly peace and earthly joy. Freedom from sickness and the pains of mortality was never …

The Hand of God in the History of a Man

Job 7:1

… When the Lord knows that the appointed affliction has worked out all His purpose He will either raise up the patient to walk among the sons of men …

'Take Away the Frogs'

Exodus 8:8

… IN TIMES OF SORE TRIAL PRAYER ALSO BEGINS TO BE VALUABLE. Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Entreat the Lord." Pharaoh begs an interest in …

Psalm 42

Psalm 42

… I shall show what powerful influence hope hath on the Christian in affliction, and how. First, it stills and silences him under affliction. It keeps the king's …

Psalm 79

Psalm 79

… This was a serious trial and grievous horror to the Jews, who evinced much care concerning their burials. Has it come to this, that there are none to …

Psalm 11

Psalm 11

… with sickness; they shall be like a labourer who is never out of work. Henry Smith. Verse 5. "The Lord trieth the righteous." Times of affliction and persecution …

Jesus Declining the Legions

Matthew 26:53

… life, screened from all affliction? I think I hear a great many say, "I would." Would you? Would you be always free from sickness, poverty, care, bereavement, slander …

The Long Illness

"I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction" — This has long been the motto fixed before our eye upon the wall of our bed-chamber, and in …

A Handkerchief

John 20:15

… because we have sickness in our own bodies. While we are sitting or standing here, some of us little know the amount of suffering that may be felt …

Man's Extremity, God's Opportunity

Deuteronomy 32:36

… affliction or poverty, for sinners have no immunity from suffering. Saints, also, are led into trying circumstances, for the utmost holiness will not preserve any man from trial …

Memory—The Handmaid Of Hope

Lamentations 3:21

… First stands the fact that however deep may be our present affliction, it is of the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed. This is a low …

The Welcome Visitor

John 11:28-32

… That you should not be scandalized when you are put to suffering on My account—that you should not dread the offense of the Cross and turn aside …

Judgment Threatening But Mercy Sparing

Luke 13:7

… had affliction, trial and trouble—like the gardener's great spade—to wean you from earth and loosen your hold of carnal things. You have had sickness—you …

The Prayer of Jabez

… Well, but after all, what is there in the verdict of man? At a trial, the verdict of the policeman who stands in the court, or of the …

God's Thoughts and Ours

Psalm 139:17

… Some of us know what this trial means. When we have tried to be disinterested and have really been so, men have said that we have acted from …

The Voice Of Cholera

Amos 3:3-6

… affliction is a judgment upon the particular person to whom it occurs. We perceive that in this world the best of men often endure the most of suffering …

Away With Fear

Isaiah 41:10

… Sometimes it is poverty, sometimes sickness, sometimes the recollection of the past, and quite as often dread of the future. Even those who have faith in God may …

The Errand of Mercy

Luke 19:10

… He was upon his trial, but the moment that Adam tasted of the forbidden fruit, the probation was over—he was a lost man! And our probation was …

A Waiting God and a Waiting People

Isaiah 30:18

… Let us behold His long-suffering towards ourselves. In so doing we shall not be leaving the Scripture, for the text as truly describes our own experience as …

Fresh Grace Confidently Expected

Psalm 92:10

… From many a soul-sickness had the son of Jesse been recovered. From many a sinking had he been lifted up into holy joy. He here expresses his …

Washed to Greater Foulness

Job 9:30

… From my experience, as a patient myself, smitten down with soul-sickness; and from my observation as a pastor, into whose ears the woes of awakened sinners are …

Prayer 8 — A Prayer for Holiness

… We might come to Thee about our weariness, about our sickness, about our disappointment, about our poverty, but we will leave all that, we will only come about …

Evening, September 3

Ps 11:5

… doors to trial. Even our mercies, like roses, have their thorns. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of affliction. Our mountains …

The Holy Spirit’s Intercession

Romans 8:26

… the trial. The affliction was, as it were, in your very bones, but the promise was also in your very heart. You could not doubt the affliction, for …

Fast-Day Service

DANIEL 9:1-19

… Just as the father thinks it a high affliction to chastise his child, so should a country ever esteem it to be a visitation when they have to …

Three Blessings of the Heavenly Charter

Job 10:12

… You have had chastisement, or you have had affliction in the house. God's visitations are sometimes very unwelcome. We dread that He should come to afflict or …

The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death

Psalm 23:4

… Better consume with fire than perish of dry rot! The cold mountains of trial are far safer than the sultry plains of pleasure. I am not, therefore, alarmed …

Fine Pleading

Psalm 106:4

… He had been in deep waters of trial and affliction, but had not been allowed to sink. He had known fierce assaults of sin that threatened tearful eyes …

Encourage Your Minister!

Deuteronomy 1:38

… If his spirits are kept up, he will be able to endure trial upon trial. He comes to the fire, but it will never kindle upon him when …

Sweet Comfort for Feeble Saints

Matthew 12:20

… If temptation comes, they fall before it; if trial comes, they are overwhelmed by it; their frail skiff is danced up and down by every wave; and when …

A New Year's Wish

Philippians 4:19

… They had lovingly thought of him who was their spiritual father—and when they knew that he was shut up as a prisoner in Rome, and suffering need …