Suffering & Affliction

Evening, July 22

Jn 19:5

… Look up, repenting sinners, and see the sorrowful image of your suffering Lord. Mark him, as the ruby drops stand on the thorn-crown, and adorn with priceless …

Evening, May 31

Ps 103:3

… statement, yet the fact is certain, that we are all more or less suffering under the disease of sin. What a comfort to know that we have a …

Ploughing the Rock

… These people have been preached to, taught, instructed, admonished, expostulated with, and advised; shall this unrecompensed work be always performed? We have given them a fair trial; what …

Evening, April 27

Ps 10:16

… do! We would count no expense to be wasted that could glorify Christ. Suffering would be pleasure, and loss would be gain, if thereby we could surround his …

Evening, April 5

Pr 15:33

… Whether it be prayer or praise, whether it be work or suffering, the genuine salt of humility cannot be used in excess.

Evening, June 29

2Ch 32:31

… deny thee! Keep us living, keep us dying, keep us labouring, keep us suffering, keep us fighting, keep us resting, keep us everywhere, for everywhere we need thee …

Morning, October 27

2Ti 2:11

… which is to come; and we have also the two great branches of suffering with Christ and serving with Christ, loaded with the fruits of the Spirit. Treasure …

Morning, April 12

Ps 22:14

… Well might the suffering Saviour cry to his God, “Be not far from me,” for above all other seasons a man needs his God when his heart is …

Morning, February 13

1Jn 3:1-2

… As for the temporary drawback of suffering with the elder brother, this we accept as an honour: “Therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not …

Christ's Perfection and Precedence

Solomon 5:10

… This suffering Substitute, I must trust Him. God has laid Him in Zion as a foundation and a chief cornerstone—I will come and build all my hopes …

Evening, June 21

2Ti 2:19

… It shall still be Christ, a positive substitute , bearing human guilt and suffering in the stead of men. We cannot, dare not, give it up, for it is …

Evening, December 26

Mt 28:20

… longer, but glow like seraphs, equal to every labour, and capable of every suffering. If we know that Jesus is with us, every power will be developed , and …

The Double Forget-me-not

1 Corinthians 11:24

… The bread is, in itself, a most appropriate memorial of suffering. Was it not wheat that was sown in a furrow in the field and there buried? Did …

The Greatest Wonder of Grace

Ezekiel 9:8

… Mark you, this is the very Hell of Hell that men will know that they are justly suffering. To endure a tyrant's wrath would be a small …

Evening, November 14

Ge 29:26

… In such a spirit, labouring and suffering, thou wilt find bitters grow sweet, and hard things easy. Like Jacob, thy years of service will seem unto thee but …

A Place of Trust

… you in your nature–that He has suffered all that you are now suffering–that your pathway has been aforetime trodden by His sacred foot–that the cup …

Morning, November 10

De 33:27

… We think of him in the person of his dear Son; and a glimpse of the suffering face of the Redeemer constrains us to labour in his cause …

The Sleep of Death

… are teased no more with the noise of strife or the murmur of suffering; his hand is no more weakened by long protracted effort and painful weariness; his …

A Wonder Explained By Greater Wonders

Lamentations 3:57

… And so with our gracious God! He comes to His poor, suffering, downcast people and what He says to them is not— "You should not have done so …

Early Criticisms and Slanders

… Occasionally, also, he alluded from the pulpit to this form of fiery trial. In a sermon, preached March 15, 1857, he said: — “I shall never forget the circumstance …

"Better Than Wine"

Solomon 1:2

… We have almost courted suffering, itself, by reason of the richness of the consolation which suffering times have always brought with them! He has been such a precious …

The Shortest of the Seven Cries

John 19:28

… The next time we are in pain or are suffering depression of spirit we will remember that our Lord understands it all, for he has had practical, personal …

Our Glorious Transforming

Ephesians 2:13

… It means suffering; it means a life surrendered with agony. Suffering—we talk about it; ah! but when you feel it, then you think more of the Saviour …

I Was Before

1 Timothy 1:13

… He tells us in the 16th verse of this chapter, "For this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering …

Concentration and Diffusion

John 12:3

… In the prospect of that great ingathering, He looked beyond the impending shame and suffering and spoke even of the hour of His death as the time when …

Rest, Rest

Matthew 11:28-30

… O you who feel your unworthiness this morning, who have been seeking salvation earnestly, and suffering the weight of sin, Jesus will freely give to you what you …

The Day of Salvation

2 Corinthians 6:2

… They made war according to their own fancy or frenzy—and what is that but moral midnight? What does war mean but crime, suffering, death, poverty? Is it …

The Pierced One Pierces The Heart

Zechariah 12:10

… O You Immaculate Man, shall I see You bleed without compassion? O You Almighty God, shall I see You Incarnate in the flesh, suffering throes and pangs unworthy …

God's Non-Remembrance of Sin

Isaiah 43:25

… where are you?" In the morning of human history the Lord's long-suffering displayed itself and gave promise of larger Grace! The same is true of you …

The Dying Thief in a New Light

Luke 23:40-42

… No Christian man could or would use it so injuriously—he must be hopelessly bad who would draw from God's long-suffering an argument for continuing in …

Psalm 128

Psalm 128

… how much better is this than to see them pining upon beds of sickness, unable to come for their meals! What a blessing to have sufficient to put …

Perfect Sanctification

Hebrews 10:10

… Death does not suffer—it is the end of suffering! A man is in life while he suffers and if they say, "It is Christ's death that …

Blood Even on the Golden Altar

Leviticus 4:7

… But what does, "the blood," mean in Scripture? It means not merely suffering, which might very well be typified by blood, but it means suffering unto death. It …

The Holy Saviour

… He passed through the wilderness of suffering, but into the wilderness of sin He could never go. “He knew no sin:” mark that expression and treasure it up …

In the Hay-field

… And so, my soul, though thou mayest endure many a frost of sorrow and a long winter of trial, yet the Lord will cause thee to grow in …

Religion–a Present Enjoyment

… We have seen Christians so suffering, that we wondered that they lived; so poor, that we wondered at their misery; we have seen them so full of doubts …

Smoking Flax

Isaiah 42:3

… The place in which they live is a trial to them and their natural constitution furnishes them with a host of temptations—and so the flax scarcely burns …

In the Sunny South (Continued)

… He used, at times, to feel that the burden became almost too great to be borne, for it seemed as if all who were suffering from depression of …

The Pastor's Life Wrapped Up with His People's Steadfastness a Pleading Reminder for the New Year

1 Thessalonians 3:8

… We do not think enough about that trial which each man will have to undergo, or of that account which all under shepherds will have to render in …

Taught That We May Teach

Ezekiel 40:4

… He wrestled with Jacob at the brook Jabbok, for Jacob was wrestling with a sore trial. It was He that revealed Himself to Moses when the bush was …