Suffering & Affliction

Wake Up! Wake Up!

Romans 13:11

… Perhaps he is saddened by affliction or cowed by adversity—then he will respect as friendly what he might otherwise resent as insulting. The most hardened, at some …

Mongrel Religion

2 Kings 17:41

… land, and desired to know the manner in which he would be worshipped. Affliction is a wild beast by which God teaches men who act like beasts. This …

True and Not True

John 9:31

… But when he was carried away to Babylon, in his affliction, "He sought the Lord, his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and …

God's Glory in the Building Up of Zion

Psalm 102:16

… then God comes and cuts the net, perhaps, with the sharp knife of affliction and the imprisoned soul again finds freedom from worldly associations and happy liberty in …

God—All in All

Job 34:29

… in God? Beloved, a glimpse of our heavenly Father's face even sweetens affliction— "The bitterest tears, If He smile but on them, Like dew in the sunshine …

'Make This Valley Full of Ditches'

2 Kings 3:16-18

… tribulation drives us to the Lord, it is an unspeakable blessing and makes affliction prove to us one of our greatest mercies. It is a good wave that …

Precepts and Promises

John 12:26

… If I am very ill, how am I to follow Him? Why, by bearing the affliction as patiently as He would have borne it! If I am very …

Climbing the Mountain

Psalm 24:3

… I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath, all his waves and his billows have gone over me. If the road be …

The Plague of the Heart

1Kings 8:38-40

… The Lord will hear whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man in reference to his own personal affliction if his heart is turned towards God's …

The Secret Food And The Public Name

Jeremiah 15:16

… If ever you see anyone who walks in holiness, stands fast in temptation and is upheld under affliction, you may rest assured there is a something about him …

The Lamentations of Jesus

Luke 19:41

… truly say than the weeping Prophet, "I am the Man that has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath. My eyes run down with rivers of water …

Earth's Vanities and Heaven's Verities

Psalm 39:6-8

… That is fine silence when a man will not complain because his affliction comes from the hand of God! There is something better, even, than that—when a …

A Discourse to the Despairing

Genesis 42:1

… Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. You sinful one, yet one of His own children, He …

The Sin-Bearer

… Truly, in this case, “like cures like.” By the suffering of our Lord Jesus, our suffering is made light. The servant is comforted since Jesus took upon Himself …

Asleep and Yet Awake—a Riddle

Solomon 5:2

… He more than calls—He knocks at your heart by affliction, by mercy, by warning, by comfort. He will do more with you, yet, if you are His …

The Last Words of Christ on the Cross

Luke 23:46

… be very dear to us, we would not need so much pruning by affliction. It is because that first knife does not always produce the desired result that …

Those Who Desire

Nehemiah 1:11

… 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 …

A Private Enquiry

1 Samuel 3:17

… those under our charge—lest the Lord lay us low and send an affliction upon us, which shall cleave to our race forever! We will now use Eli …

The Drawings Of Divine Love

John 6:44

… All the teachings of affliction are intended to make us sick of self and fond of Christ. All the true teachings of the Christian ministry aim at putting …

The True Gospel Is No Hidden Gospel

2 Corinthians 4:3

… of the Glory of Christ" has given to the sons and daughters of affliction! Wherever it comes, it liberates the captive mind and removes the pains of remorse …

Micah's Message for Today

Micah 6:8

… God's voice to His people is often uttered by means of their affliction—"Hear you the rod." He wishes us to understand that judgments and calamities are …

Sin Subdued

Micah 7:19

… of sin has gone, yet the defiling power of sin is a great affliction to us? Our experience is embittered by the corruption of sins long ago dead …

A Message from God for Thee

Lamentations 4:22

… You may have troubles, but you will never have punishment; you may know affliction, but you shall never know wrath; you may go to the grave, but you …

Scarlet Sinners Pardoned and Purified

Isaiah 1:18

… This is what God asks for—"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this—To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to …

Faith Versus Sight

2 Corinthians 5:7

… If I have believed in Jesus Christ, I may at this moment, through disease of body or some other present temporal affliction, be very heavy in spirit—but …

Sermon 463. Christ'S Servant—His Duty And Reward

John 12:26

… she would say, "He was with my son in all his sorrow and affliction, and I will honor him above all the mighty ones in the land." And …

Oct. 19 — REGULATED CHASTISEMENT

Jer. 30:11

… more than the "forty stripes save one, which ensured careful counting and limited suffering, so is it with each afflicted member of the household of faith--every stroke …

Watching to See

Habakkuk 2:1-4

… have had one ache less, or one depression of spirit less, or one affliction less of any sort. I would rather not have any more—as everybody says …

Farm Laborers

1 Corinthians 3:6-9

… They are seeking causes of prosperity and becoming very despondent if they do not appear to exist; or viewing the agents of affliction and becoming angry against them …

The Minister'S Stock-Taking

Acts 28:24

… I knew one young man with whom it lasted for five years—and he stands here today to tell of that long period of affliction. That young man …

Esther's Exaltation—or, Who Knows?

Esther 4:13

… are put aside from our work for a little while, but perhaps this affliction is necessary to teach us—and to teach all that know us—to cease …

Letters to Father and Mother, January to June, 1850

… One trial to me is that I have nothing to give up for Christ, nothing wherein to show my love to Him. What I can do, is little …

A Promise For Us And For Our Children

Isaiah 44:1-5

… And in affliction I shall not be afraid. Oh, the joy which dwells in the thought that God loves His people! Jesus loved me and gave Himself for …

A Hard Case

Job 33:14-18

… God gets at other men in a different way, namely, by affliction, or by the death of others. What messengers of mercy afflictions have often been! The man …

June 26 — IT WILL NOT BE LONG

James 5:8

… This sacred "window of agate" lets in a flood of light upon the present, and puts us into fine condition for immediate work or suffering. Are we tried …

Prayer Perfumed with Praise

Philippians 4:6

… I triumph before thee in my affliction, and bless thee for it even while I ask thee to help me in it and to rescue me out of …

Aug. 11 — WAITING, NOT RUNNING

Ps. 62:1

… He will save from doubt, and suffering, and slander, and distress. Though we see no sign of it as yet, we are satisfied to bide the Lord's …

May 11 — WAIT FOR THE FINALS

Gen. 49:19

… Christ, our Lord Jesus, would teach us His holy art of setting the face like a flint to go through with work or suffering till we can say …

July 25 — NOTHING TO ALARM US

Dan. 12:13

… Calmly resolute in duty, brave in conflict, patient in suffering, let us go our way, keeping to our road, and neither swerving from it nor loitering in it …

The Secret of Failure

Matthew 17:19-21

… true, "This demon has been long in possession." The father said that the affliction came upon him when he was a child. You know that it is not …