Our Light Afflictions

James D. Slopsema is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Randolph, Wisconsin. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. II Corinthians 4:17 None of us is a stranger to affliction. Affliction is that which continues to press in upon us so that finally we have no place to turn, not even space to breathe. Affliction comes in many different forms for God's people. There is, first of all, reproach for Christ's...