Suffering & Affliction

The Bible

Hosea 8:12

… If I follow the thundering Nahum, when his horses plough the waters, or Habakkuk, when he sees the tents of Cushan in affliction; if I read Malachi, when …

The Soul's Food and Drink

John 6:55

… on earth for over 30 years and knew all the weakness, temptation and suffering to which that flesh is liable—when I think how He proved Himself to …

The Waterer Watered

Proverbs 11:25

… Personal affliction, losses, crosses, burdens make us just like the withering shrub and then we need to have the consolations of some kind friend to water us. Dear …

'Christ Is All'

Colossians 3:11

… know that you have something to grieve over, but, after all, your "light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for you a far more exceedingly and …

The Man Whose Hand Stuck to His Sword

2 Samuel 23:9

… He regarded their affliction, when He heard their cry: and for their sake He remembered His Covenant, and repented according to the multitude of His mercies. He made …

Obedience Better Than Sacrifice

1 Samuel 15:2

… financial support and neglect personally to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, to feed the hungry, to care for the sick, and do not, like the …

Neither Forsaken Nor Forgotten

Isaiah 49:16

… She was away from the land that flowed with milk and honey—she was suffering in exile. Is this the conclusion to be drawn from all suffering? Does …

"There Is Forgiveness"

Psalm 130:4

… the sea and the most precious prayers come out of the depths of affliction—"Out of the depths have I cried unto You, O Lord." Cannot many of …

Truth Stranger Than Fiction

Joel 2:25

… grind sunlight for you out of your black nights—in the oven of affliction Divine Grace will prepare the bread of delight. I said this to a friend …

Jesus Christ's Idiom

John 3:5

… their children as they have done and many stern struggles with poverty and affliction, and I might say to them, "My Brother, my Sister, has not Christ been …

The Blind Man'S Earnest Cries

Mark 10:47

… Let us pass on to a fourth point—THIS MAN EXPERIENCED OBSTACLES IN HIS PRAYER and this is a very common affliction. John Bunyan tells us that right …

Go Back? Never!

Hebrews 11:15

… By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of …

Love Pledging Fidelity

1 Samuel 18:3

… Visit them in their affliction, relieve their distresses, comfort their hearts and do it all for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake. And because Jesus loves you, He …

Strength And Recovery

Zechariah 10:12

… He is not amazed when he is troubled on every side, for he knows that he will have to bear his share of affliction and he accepts the …

Zealots

Luke 6:15

… They often bring their bodies to sickness and their minds to madness in their zeal for riches. You do not find that the world cries out against zeal …

What the Lord's Supper Sees and Says

1 Corinthians 11:26

… The bread must be broken and what better emblem of suffering can you have than that? The bread, itself, if rightly viewed, appears to be a mass of …

Three Precious Things

1 Peter 2:7

… Faith touches affliction and she glories in them. Faith touches losses and they turn to gains. There is nothing that faith deals with but what is transmuted into …

The Sermon of the Seasons

Genesis 8:22

… Our watchmen are asked if they discern any signs of returning day, and they answer, "No." Thus we bow our heads in a common affliction, and ask each …

The Best of the Best

Solomon 2:1

… The combination of these sweet flowers also suggests our Lord's suffering and purity— "White is His soul, from blemish free. Red with the blood He shed for …

Faith Purifying the Heart

Acts 15:9

… the songs of new-born Believers in Christ, nor see men rejoice in affliction and triumph in death—are sure to blunder when they set up for teachers …

The Teaching of the Holy Ghost

John 14:26

… And then again he teaches as he wills—same by affliction, some by. communion; some he teaches by the Word read, some by the Word spoken, some by …

How Saints May Help the Devil

Ezekiel 16:54

… is to me that hardens my heart, and makes me stand up against affliction a great deal better than their faith in God’s providence can do. Why …

Maschil Of Ethan, A Majestic Song

Psalm 89:1

… Greatly does it glorify God for us to sing His high praises in storms of adversity and on beds of affliction. It magnifies His mercy if we can …

The Putting Away Of Sin

Hebrews 9:26

… Some have fancied that when they have repented of sin after a sort, and forsaken it, that then by denying their bodies, by enduring much physical suffering, they …

Jesus Putting Away Sin

Hebrews 9:26

… If the work had not been accomplished, He would be suffering, suffering often, until at the last He could say, "It is finished." But His redemption is complete …

Grace Reviving Israel

Hosea 14:5-7

… After a few years, when we have been growing up in ardent piety, it usually happens that some doubt crosses the mind, or some affliction comes, which, if …

Surveying the Field

Nehemiah 2:12

… And they said unto me, the remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also …

Love to Jesus the Great Test

John 8:42

… with a lady who had lost her taste and smell—a somewhat singular affliction. The fairest rose in the world cannot salute her nostrils with its pleasant perfume …

Encouragement for the Depressed

Zechariah 4:10

… there any peace to him that went out or came in because ofthe affliction: for I set all men, everyone, against his neighbor See into what a state …

An Appeal To Sinners

Luke 15:2

… The Lord hath visited me in the chamber of affliction. I am recovering; and God knoweth “I long to see you, and impart unto you some spiritual gift …

The Savior's Charity

Mark 10:51

… It looks upon it as an affliction. It takes the most merciful view that is possible—and how little does it say to you even of disease? It …

Sin Laid on Jesus

Isaiah 53:6

… The second thought is that sin was made to meet upon the suffering person of the innocent substitute. I have said “the suffering person” because the connection of …

Love at Leisure

Luke 10:39

… It may be that God will lay you low by affliction in order to bring you to the feet of Jesus. Perhaps He will allow disaster and disappointment …

Peter's Restoration

Luke 22:60-62

… What the most powerful writer cannot do with hundreds of pages and what affliction cannot do with even its heaviest stroke. The Lord looked and Peter wept bitterly …

Lessons on Divine Grace

1 Corinthians 15:10

… overwhelms His children with mercy quite as completely as He ever does with affliction. Pride may be overcome in two ways. It is sometimes overcome by trouble that …

A Traveller’s Letters Home (Continued)

… God give thee still thy daily patience while He sees fit to send thee pain; but, oh! may He remove the affliction, and send healing to thee, and …

Carried by Four

Luke 5:16-26

… The affliction for which his friends pitied him was in his body, but he himself felt a far severer trouble in his soul, and probably it was not …

'Love and I' A Mystery

John 17:26

… When the Spirit of God blesses an affliction to us, it is one of the Saviour’s illuminated books out of which we learn something more of the …

Robbers of God

Malachi 3:8

… But there came a sudden stop to usefulness—a foolish action—and the man became an affliction to the gracious. If we sit up for masters, instead of …

Christ's Poverty, Our Riches

2 Corinthians 8:9

… Some indeedpreach Christ even from envy and strife; and some also of goodwill the one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds …