Suffering & Affliction

Hearken and Look; or, Encouragement for Believers

Isaiah 51:2-3

… art thou Abraham, and therefore well mightest thou be his friend! In thy trial brought to such a stripping we may yet envy thee as we hear the …

Oct. 1 — A COVENANT HE REMEMBERS

Ps. 111:5

… He is mindful of every jot and tittle of His engagements, never suffering one of His words to fall to the ground. We are sadly unmindful of our …

July 5 — COMPLETE DELIVERANCE

Jer. 39:17

… 39:17 When the Lord's faithful ones are suffering for Him, they shall have sweet messages of love from Himself, and sometimes they shall have glad tidings …

Jesus About His Father’s Business

John 4:34

… The Cross to him is brighter than a crown, the suffering more dear than wealth and honor. So then, in this too, we may see how full was …

King's Gardens

Nehemiah 3:15

… or our heart will be a cold swamp—a worthless plant-killing bog. Affliction drains us. We do not like to have our money or our friends taken …

Dec. 8 — FOLLOWING LEADS TO HONOR

John 12:26

… After His suffering our Lord came to His throne, and even so, after we have suffered a while with Him here below, we also shall arrive in glory …

The Great Attraction

John 12:32

… They have seen how Jesus' suffering put aside the necessity of our suffering for sin—and peace at once has bedewed the soul. It is no mean thing …

A Warning Against Hardness Of Heart

Hebrews 3:13

… Oh, Beloved, it was so once with you! A text of Scripture, a threat, a touch of the rod of affliction and you went to your Father's …

Mourning at the Sight of the Crucified

Luke 23:48

… innocent—yet, perceiving nothing more in Jesus than mere evil-treated virtue and suffering manhood, the natural emotion might soon pass away and the moral and spiritual result …

Hearing With Heed

Mark 4:24

… afterward, when affliction or persecution arise for the Word's sake, immediately they are offended. These are the people that trouble and grieve the hearts of earnest ministers …

The Spirit of Praise

… Sing of long-suffering grace which followed my wanderings, and bore with my rebellions. Review before my eyes that gladsome hour when first I knew the Lord, and …

The Value and Rank of the Believer

Isaiah 43:4

… Many of those whom the Lord loves most, endure sharp affliction, even as the most precious metal is likely to see the most of the fire. Is it …

Every Man's Necessity

John 3:7

… God grant that mental and, above all, spiritual strength may be given me for the preaching of the Word in your midst and that my long bodily affliction …

Today! Today! Today!

Psalm 95:7

… On your weary bed you moaned in spirit— "Dark is all the world before me, Darker, yet, eternity." Yet affliction has had no good effect upon you. "Why …

Perfect Cleansing

Joel 3:21

… If it were, you would know that every affliction was but love; that every blow was but another form of a caress; that your troubles were not punishments …

Faith Among Mockers

Psalm 22:8

… Your eminence in Grace can only come by affliction! Will you not have trust in God if severe trials are ordained for you? Yes, of course you will …

Songs For Desolate Hearts

Isaiah 54:1

… In modern times that affliction is endured with cheerful equanimity, but in those days it was regarded as a dreadful curse and the feelings of those afflicted by …

Christ the Creator

Colossians 1:16

… However long He may allow evil to continue, there is an end even to His long-suffering patience! And then, woe be to those who are still at …

Morning, May 28

Ro 8:30

… Thou mayest be poor, or in suffering, or unknown, but for thine encouragement take a review of thy “calling” and the consequences that flow from it, and especially …

The Overflowing Cup

Psalm 23:5

… has been wisely written, "Blessed is that nation which has no history." When affliction comes, there is an event to mark, a notch to be scored on the …

Fickle Followers

Luke 9:57-62

… all pleasure and joy, that there will be no persecution to endure, no affliction to bear. It may be that you have imagined that the way to Heaven …

The Lord,—the Liberator

Psalm 146:7

… that sat "in darkness, and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron." I asked him if there were no windows to the cell. Yes …

Signs Of The Times

Luke 12:54-57

… What does this cloud of the long-suffering of God mean? I will tell you. It bears drops of gentle mercy in its bosom. The long-suffering of …

Morning, March 21

Jn 16:32

… tremendous conflict, to enter the inner circle and hear the pleadings of the suffering High Priest; they have fellowship with him in his sufferings, and are made conformable …

Morning, November 29

Le 19:16-17

… Does the flesh shrink from it? Then we must lay the greater stress upon our conscience, and keep ourselves to the work, lest by suffering sin upon our …

Morning, June 17

Ps 12:1

… the turn of needy souls. “Help, Lord,” will suit us living and dying, suffering or labouring, rejoicing or sorrowing. In him our help is found, let us not …

Evening, October 24

Jn 13:5

… God; but what condescending patience there is when the Saviour with much long-suffering bears the oft recurring follies of his wayward disciple; day by day, and hour …

Morning, April 14

Ps 22:7

… their heads or thrusting out the lip in bitterest contempt of one poor suffering victim! Surely there must have been something more in the crucified One than they …

Evening, February 6

Jam 5:16

… When thou hast the King’s ear, speak to him for the suffering members of his body. When thou art favoured to draw very near to his throne …

Evening, May 8

Job 22:21

… eternal God, and yet suffering, finite man; follow him as he walks the waters with the tread of deity, and as he sits upon the well in the …

Evening, August 7

1Th 2:18

… he labours to cast down the stones; if we would serve God in suffering or in conflict—everywhere Satan hinders us. He hinders us when we are first …

Morning, January 6

1Pe 5:7

… Nothing is so sweet as to “Lie passive in God’s hands, And know no will but his.” O child of suffering, be thou patient; God has not …

Morning, January 13

1Ki 22:48

… The secret cause of Jehoshaphat’s loss is well worthy of notice, for it is the root of very much of the suffering of the Lord’s people …

Morning, April 15

Ps 22:1

… This was the black midnight of his horror; then it was that he descended the abyss of suffering. No man can enter into the full meaning of these …

Evening, May 26

Ac 14:22

… He will endeavour to make you weary of suffering , he will whisper, “Curse God, and die.” Or he will attack your steadfastness : “What is the good of being …

Morning, July 2

Ps 33:21

… He is sick and suffering, but Jesus visits him and makes his bed for him. He is dying, and the cold chilly waters of Jordan are gathering about …

Evening, November 7

Ac 1:8

… pass that for Christ’s sake and the gospel’s you shall endure suffering in any shape, shrink not, but rejoice in the honour thus conferred upon you …

Evening, December 14

Ga 2:20

… Dead, yet alive! crucified with Christ, and yet at the same time risen with Christ in newness of life! Union with the suffering, bleeding Saviour, and death to …

Morning, February 2

Heb 9:22

… The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross. “The blood is the life thereof,” says the Levitical law, and let …

Evening, September 15

Ps 148:14

… Not now does he teach the leper his leprosy by setting him at a distance, but by himself suffering the penalty of his defilement. What a state of …