Suffering & Affliction

July 14 — BURDENS CAST ON HIM

Ps. 55:22

… Our worst fear is lest our trial should drive us from the path of duty; but this the Lord will never suffer. If we are righteous before Him …

The Key-Note of a Choice Sonnet

Luke 1:46

… It would be an affliction indeed if our life-work should suffer through painful sickness, which in itself is a heavy cross to bear. By your prayers this …

Our Glorious Leader

Luke 19:28

… of, it is Christ suffering—still suffering in His members—and when any child of God suffers in any righteous cause, whenever affliction comes upon a saint in …

Satan's Banquet

John 2:9-10

… of affliction, comes the cup of consolation, and, oh, how sweet is that! It has been the privilege of these lips to drink that cup after sickness and …

Peace—How Gained, How Broken

Psalm 85:8

… This peace will shoe your feet for ways of obedience or suffering. "May the peace of God keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus!" II. Now we …

A Vile Weed and a Fair Flower

Hebrews 13:5

… The trial of our faith will soon be over—a long life of affliction is but a pin's point of time. Be it ever so painful, we …

Evening, September 12

Ps 101:1

… the trial is not so heavy as it might have been ; next, the trouble is not so severe as we deserved to have borne ; and our affliction is …

How to Become Full of Joy

1 John 1:4

… this world, yet sometimes your affliction is here. Poverty is sometimes too heavy a cross for you to sing under it. Sickness casts you on a bed upon …

Concerning the Consolations Of God

Job 15:11

… Is not this the grandest of all consolations—the consolation of God? When we lay hold on Jesus and receive forgiveness, affliction may remain, but sin is gone …

A God Ready to Pardon

Nehemiah 9:17

… My brethren, bless ye also the Lord that though he has often smitten you, and given you the bread of affliction and the water of affliction, yet he …

Psalm 119

Psalm 119

… The nipping frosts of trial and affliction are ofttimes needed, if God's larches are to grow. It is under such discipline that new thoughts and feelings appear …

Evening, October 9

Mt 15:23

… A painful silence from the Saviour is the grievous trial of many a seeking soul, but heavier still is the affliction of a harsh cutting reply such as …

Pardon for the Greatest Guilt

2 Chronicles 33:2

… There are some men who will never go to Heaven except through a sea of affliction and trial. Oh, for wisdom to yield to Almighty Grace at once …

Christ Precious to Believers

1 Peter 2:7

… of sickness, when he comes to thee and says, “I will make all thy bed in thy sickness.” How precious to thee in the day of trial, when …

Mercy's Master Motive

Isaiah 48:9-11

… the Lord declares that the time of trial is the chosen season for revealing his love to you: 'I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.' This …

Justification, Propitiation, Declaration

Romans 3:24-26

… A person is put on trial, he is brought before the judge. One of two things will happen—he will either be acquitted or justified, or else he …

The Loaded Wagon

Amos 2:13

… When you, as many of you have done, sin with the higher hand because of His long-suffering towards you—when, because you have no sickness, no losses …

My Last Letters from Mentone

… He kept up a daily correspondence with unflagging regularity; and when unable to use his pen, through severe suffering or weakness, the letter came as usual, either dictated …

Constancy And Inconstancy—a Contrast

Hosea 6:3

… You shall be worn with disease and wasted with sickness. You shall have misery of soul and despair of heart—but He will save you if He so …

Comfort for Those Whose Prayers Are Feeble

Lamentations 3:56

… it is to prove that great faithfulness in great affliction. But when there has been a great trial, the believing soul has cast itself upon the ever-faithful …

The Rough Hewer

Hosea 6:4

… One man would not think till the Lord laid him on a bed of sickness. Even there he tried to brazen it out— but the sickness grew worse …

The Feast of the Lord

John 2:9-10

… How many more there are of God’s people that are lying on beds of affliction. Some of the most precious of God’s diamonds are lying on …

The Single-handed Conquest

Isaiah 63:3

… There are winepresses of suffering, although not of punishment, which you wiil have to tread. But I want you to remember that you will not have to tread …

Our Miseries, Messengers of Mercy

Hosea 6:1-2

… The Lord, in his long-suffering, dealt very kindly with his erring Israel, sending them favor after favor, and blessing after blessing, saying by his acts, “I have …

The Use of the Bow

2 Samuel 1:17

… Are any of you in great grief? Have you suffered a supreme loss? Do not be tempted to brood over your affliction and to think that you ought …

Mutual Love Between Pastor and People

… In this relative trial, a very keen one, I again ask your prayers. The Lord be with you evermore! Amen. So prays,— “Your suffering Pastor, “C. H. Spurgeon …

The Fainting Hero

Judges 15:18

… Whatever form the affliction has taken, Mercy has taken a suitable form to meet it. When the arrow flew, God was your Shield. When the darkness gathered, He …

Nathanael—Or, the Ready Believer and His Reward

John 1:50

… Perhaps, in addition to being convinced of sin, they were suffering from poverty, or sickness, or indigestion, or remorse, or some other vexation of spirit. Discern carefully between …

Comfort From the Future

Job 11:16

… We are restored to health, or lifted up from depression of spirit and we wonder that we ever made so much of our former suffering or depression. We …

Jude's Doxology

… temptation by letting affliction come upon us. Many a man has been kept from falling into sin by being stretched upon a bed of sickness. Had it not …

The Hairs of Your Head Numbered

Matthew 10:30

… ripened by sickness. They are like the sycamore fig, which never gets sweet until it is bruised. Amos was a bruiser of sycamore figs and affliction is God …

Psalm 22

Psalm 22

… Verse 2. "O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not." For our prayers to appear to be unheard is no new trial, Jesus felt …

Good Cheer From Grace Received

Matthew 9:20-22

… After she had touched Him and her faith had made her whole, a trial awaited her and her spirit was ready to faint—and then the tender One …

Rough, But Friendly

Genesis 42:25

… The greater the blessing, the greater the trial that shall precede it! So, too, with our own souls. When the Lord Jesus Christ intended to save us and …

Black Clouds and Bright Blessings

Ecclesiastes 11:3

… Sickness treads upon the heel of sickness. All things seem to be against you, as against Jacob of old. The clouds are very black, but may they not …

The Tenderness of God's Comfort

Isaiah 66:13

… The pause between sickness and health may not be very long. If the Good Physician shall put His healing hands upon us, we shall soon be restored. How …

Pictures of Happiness

Psalm 144:15

… tenderness, feeling for them, suffering with them— 14. For He knows our frame. He remembers that we are dust He knows that our sickness is but a premonition …

Christ in Gethsemane

Mark 14:32

… I do not court suffering, but if it is for Christ's sake, for the glory of God and the good of His Church, I do not wish …

Satan Departing, Angels Ministering

Luke 4:13

… It may be a long time, when you are suffering from his attacks, before he will hold his hand, for he will try all that he possibly can …

Jan. 5 — A WONDERFUL GUARANTEE

Isa. 41:10

… Do we not remember seasons of labor and trial in which we received such special strength that we wondered at ourselves? In the midst of danger we were …