I trust that your sickness will work for good because the Lord has sent it. We are sure that He does not afflict His children without a need be. He does all things well. He weighs the mountains in the scales, and the hills in a balance. He likewise weighs, measures, and proportions our trials to our strength and our malady with greater accuracy than the most skillful earthly physician can prescribe his medicines.
No trial comes sooner, or falls heavier, or lasts longer than the necessity of the case requires. He knows our frame, and remembers that we are but dust. He will lay no more upon us than He will enable us to bear.
Like as a father pities his children so the Lord pities His redeemed children. His love is perfect, and He will not withhold whatever He sees is necessary to promote our best welfare however painful and displeasing it may be to the flesh. Earthly parents often, through a weak and mistaken tenderness spare their children, to their hurt. But as God supplies His children with food so they must take His medicines, however distasteful, when He sees they would not be so well without them.
My good friend, be willing that the Lord should carry on His work in His own way and do not prescribe to Him how He shall deal with you. All shall work together for good. Everything is needful that He sends. Nothing can be needful that He withholds.
[John Newton]
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Job 5:6 ... Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Psalm 119:67 ... Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
Psalm 119:71 ... It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Psalm 119:75 ... I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.❤
