TRIALS, AFFLICTIONS, & CHASTISEMENTS
Perhaps He will smite
you!
Trials, Troubles & Afflictions!
The end will make amends for all!
A cup of love!
Every bitter cup
The cup!
Pity your foolish child!
But our coward flesh shrinks from them!
If God gave us no thorn
A great and inestimable mercy
I am a very dull scholar in Christ's school
The little garden?
A languishing body
His unwearied care and concern
His everlasting arms!
All trials, all
temptations, all strippings, all emptyings
Why are you cast down, O
my soul?
These difficulties . . .
Poor, moping, dejected creatures
When our path is strewed with roses
AFFLICTIONS
God is at the root of our sufferings
It is in these storms
The storms of life
The searching, burning, purifying fires of
Christ's furnace!
God's chisel
One of God's medicines!
To keep me from getting puffed up
Weary?
The believer's chief troubles
The Lord sometimes flogs His children home!
Severe, yet wise and loving
He can crawl like a serpent, and he can roar like a
lion!
Your burden
The pruning knife?
He has given me a cup of deep sorrow to drink
Softening?
Proceed with your chiselings
There are many devices in a man's heart
Sanctified affliction
Trials are intended . . .
Living in a world full of disease and death
It is the hand of Him who was crucified!
Afflictions, sorrows, trials
The black chariot of Christ!
Welcome all sickness!
Some heavy, painful, yet concealed cross?
God's knife!
This is a plank which upholds the sinking heart!
THE CHOOSING PLACE
Some of you will be cast into the furnace!
Drinking bitter cups?
One drop of that potion
This precious panacea!
What a pillow on which to rest your aching head!
The chastening of love!
The Shepherd knows what pastures are best
Happy sickness?
Surrounded with trouble at almost every step?
The buzzing of a fly?
Precious fruits of sanctified affliction?
Our little trials, little cares, little needs,
little sorrows.
SIFTING!
The hard couch of sorrow
Trials and discomforts?
Christ's schools?
God's lancet!
The medicine! The knife! Your song!
The wounded and wounding hand of the Savior!
An irrevocable loss!
Dyed in the purple stream of His own heart's blood!
What!
Level clay idols?
But, alas! We are poor creatures
What Omnipotence cannot do?
Here, put your troubles here!
Entwined with crosses?
Are you, beloved, walking in the midst of trouble?
Blessed suffering!
Oh! be submissive, meek, and quiet!
God's arrows!
CALAMITIES-- Chance, Fate, Satan or
Predestination?
A cup of love?
Black envelopes?
Hear the voice of love in the rod
The school of trial
THE REASON FOR CHASTISEMENT
Every tear that falls upon the pallid face of sorrow
"This is my infirmity."
Treasures!
Trials are necessary to wean us from the world.
The hard things
Unfailing love!
What is your sorrow?
The furnace!
Infinite
wisdom has appointed the whole!
A black messenger loaded with
treasure!
Disaster!
Afflictions
A black messenger loaded with treasure!
The season of sickness!
God's perfect will
Comfort for SICK SAINTS
This unravels the mystery!
THE GREATEST TEMPORAL BLESSING?
Sickness!
The school of Christ!
The school of adversity?
Afflictions!
All things!
Sweetly refreshed
Swine-troughs and husks!
Troubles! Trials! Afflictions!
We take much to uproot us
"Show me why You contend with me."
The sharp arrows of affliction!
One fiery trial?
Too wise to err and too good to be unkind!
Losses, adversities, afflictions, griefs!
Sweet affliction! Sweet affliction!
Comfort in all your trouble
The more the diamond is cut
A strange college!
My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me!
The black horse of affliction?
Your portion?
Our trials...
Having hard times?
Pure Gold!
My Father did this!
Bitter cups...
Kiss the rod
GOD BREAKS OUR IDOLS
Our worst things
True grace...
The afflictions of the ungodly
All the houses in this plague stricken land
A chastening God!
All kinds of trials...
ARE YOU TROUBLED?
Losses?
I asked the Lord...
GOD AFFLICTS THE GODLY
When your Father smites you!
HIS WILL
Praying about trials!
God's choicest mercies...
A Compassionate High Priest and a Throne of
Grace
Wait a little longer.
Sweet comfort...
Afflictions
Our present sufferings...
Trials, chastenings, afflictions...
Our trials?
In the furnace!
My Father's hand...
Because He loves you...
Troubles, troubles, troubles...
Troubles
God's blows?
Sharp arrows!
Afflictions are the mother of virtue...
The end of God in all His doings and dealings
Trials & providence...
Fiery trials!
The highest honor?
Wilt Thou pursue Thy worm to death?
Where God put you?
COMPASSED WITH INFIRMITY
Your Cross
God's rods!
God's Chastening!
OUR MISERIES, MESSENGERS OF MERCY
No trivial gifts?
Mourning into dancing!
His everlasting shoulders...
Mountains of troubles!
The axhead!
Help Lord!