TRIALS, AFFLICTIONS,
and CHASTISEMENTS
An easy hellAll the afflictions of God's people
I would have been perfectly submissive!
When they are twisted out of my hand
You have been long a-gathering rust
Afflicted, tormented, and destroyed!
We also rejoice in our afflictions!
I asked the Lord, that I might grow
Do not expect a smooth and easy path!
Any moment we may be stricken down!
When I am weak--then I am strong
His most afflictive dispensations
Then they hiss and spit their venom!
Perhaps, while we are admiring our gourd
God shoots many kinds of arrows
Fiery trials--make golden Christians!
If you attempt to enthrone the creature!
Correcting in love--not smiting in wrath!
The heaviest afflictions on this side hell
Thank Him for His prescription!
The trials and sufferings of the godly
O the blessed chemistry of heaven!
All the hell that you shall ever have
Every man has a heaven and a hell
It is better to be preserved in
brine--than to rot in honey!Every sorrow and trouble of our earthly pilgrimage
A remedy against all our trouble
Evidences & results of sanctified affliction
The last pang, and groan, and tear!
He who holds the pruning-knife
Trials, Troubles & Afflictions!
The end will make amends for all!
Sickness, disease, decay, and death
Corrosives to eat out the proud flesh
You will have many trials and sorrows
The daughter helps to destroy the mother
In the profound depth of affliction
You have no reason to complain
Fuel to your lusts, and quenchers of your graces
He was still a-pointing at the toads in their bosoms
You are the one who has done this!
Are you a distressed believer?
Our momentary light affliction
But our coward flesh shrinks from them!
Has He put you so many times into the furnace?
You are the one who has done this!
I am a very dull scholar in Christ's school
Every new trial, and every fresh cross!
A tiny insect at the door of My all-sufficiency
This trouble from which you are now suffering
The soil where graces thrive best
His unwearied care and concern
Through the agonies of great trial
Not made of feathers, nor lined with velvet
All trials, all temptations, all strippings, all emptyings
To wean you from a poor, unsatisfying world
Why are you cast down, O my soul?
These difficulties . . .
Poor, moping, dejected creatures
When our path is strewed with roses
When God thwarts, afflicts, and mortifies us
God is at the root of our sufferings
The searching, burning, purifying fires of Christ's furnace!
To keep me from getting puffed up
Only one hand can ease the trouble
The Lord sometimes flogs His children home!
He can crawl like a serpent, and he can roar like a lion!
He has given me a cup of deep sorrow to drink
There are many devices in a man's heart
Living in a world full of disease and death
It is the hand of Him who was crucified!
Some heavy, painful, yet concealed cross?
This is a plank which upholds the sinking heart!
The knife of the heavenly Surgeon
Some of you will be cast into the furnace!
What a pillow on which to rest your aching head!
The Shepherd knows what pastures are best
Surrounded with trouble at almost every step?
Precious fruits of sanctified affliction
Our little trials, little cares, little needs, little sorrows
Some of you will be cast into the furnace!
The medicine! The knife! Your song!
The wounded and wounding hand of the Savior!
It is their Father's hand which chastens them!
The golden idol is but clay after all!
Dyed in the purple stream of His own heart's blood!
But, alas! We are poor creatures
Are you, beloved, walking in the midst of trouble?
Oh! be submissive, meek, and quiet!
God's arrows!Just because He disposes all things
CALAMITIES--Chance, Fate, Satan or Predestination?
A cup of love?Passing through the valley of weeping
Hear the voice of love in the rod
A measure of trials is necessary
The bitter pill of adversity
THE REASON FOR CHASTISEMENTEvery tear that falls upon the pallid face of sorrow
The afflictions the Lord sends on His people
Christ's jewels!
Trials are necessary to wean us from the worldA balm for every wound, a cordial for every care
The hard thingsUnfailing love!
What is your sorrow?
The furnace!Cancer, go to that child!
Infinite wisdom has appointed the whole!
The purpose of all our sorrow and troubleA black messenger loaded with treasure!
The season of sickness!THE GREATEST TEMPORAL BLESSING?
Troubles! Trials! Afflictions!
Show me why You contend with me
The sharp arrows of affliction!
Have we not leaned upon a thousand things?
Too wise to err and too good to be unkind!
Losses, adversities, afflictions, griefs!
Sweet affliction! Sweet affliction!
My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me!
No storms, assaults, sieges, or pestilences
An amazing reverse of circumstances!
The afflictions of the ungodly
All the houses in this plague stricken land
A Compassionate High Priest and a Throne of Grace
Trials, chastenings, afflictions...
Troubles, troubles, troubles...
Afflictions are the mother of virtue...
The end of God in all His doings and dealings
Wilt Thou pursue Thy worm to death?
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