As for any affliction that you ever can have to endure on earth, it is not merely light, it is absolutely unworthy of mention in comparison with the eternal woe that is the portion of the lost!
The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian. It benefits you, it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for Heaven.
Our trials and troubles, afflictions and adversities are among the best medicines of our Great Physician.
Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction!
Some day you will thank God for all your afflictions.
The most sympathizing, loving and Christlike are generally those who have the most affliction. The worse thing that can happen to any of us, is to have our path made too smooth. One of the greatest blessings the Lord ever gives us, is a cross.
It would be a very sharp and trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by His hand, that my trials were never measured out by Him, nor sent to me by His arrangement of their weight and quantity.
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble. They must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction otherwise we shall not truly receive them.
The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart, upon the black horse of affliction!
What a blessed affliction it is which leads us to a Savior's love!
Our afflictions may come distinctly from man, as the result of persecution or malice and yet they come with even greater certainty from the Lord, and are the necessary outcome of His special love to us.
Many believers think that their afflictions were punishments sent from God on account of their sins. The thing is impossible! God has punished us, who are His people, once and for all in Christ and He will never punish us again! He cannot do it, seeing He is a just God. Afflictions are chastisements from a Father's hand they are not judicial punishments!
I would never have known the Savior's love half as much if I had never been in the storms of affliction.
The Christian is sometimes in the furnace of affliction. The fire will soon be over when he can say, "May the Lord's will be done." It is a sign that the dross has gone, when you can see the image of the Refiner in it when the heart reflects the face of God and says, "Not as I will, but as You will."
Very few of Christians will fully ripen without affliction. The vine produces little fruit unless it makes acquaintance with the knife, and is sternly pruned.
The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions!
Our afflictions become the black velvet on which the diamond of God's love glitters all the more brightly!
Heaven shall make amends for all!
[Charles H. Spurgeon]
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