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Affliction is an absolute necessity in our lives as long as we live in this world. Without it, we would soon stray from God and be swallowed up by the world. Let us thank God for His afflictions. Without them we would be one with the world and share in the world’s condemnation. This idea is found in
This affliction causes us to examine ourselves and brings us to a renewed study of His Word in order that we may know His will and have wisdom and patience to endure the affliction. Perhaps the affliction He sends us causes us to better use our time and eliminate from our lives that which is unprofi
God mercifully teaches us how great our sins and miseries are through the way of affliction. As we discussed earlier, our afflictions are a result of our sinfulness. Because of our sins, we experience pain, sorrow, distress, and difficulty. When we are afflicted, God shows us clearly the fruit of ou
Affliction is any circumstance of life that brings distress or anguish. The Hebrew word rendered “affliction” has the idea of being restricted, cramped, or pressed down. In the Bible if someone is afflicted, he is in desperate straits, in a narrow place, hard-pressed, or stressed. For Israel the gre
The picture word of this Hebrew word, it means to be bowed down under a heavy burden. The idea of affliction then refers to every burden of life, refers to those physical burdens, physical afflictions, sickness, for example, and other physical weaknesses and maladies. refers to emotional burden
Our outward man is our physical health, our family, our pleasant friendships, our work, our material income, our possessions, all of the circumstances of our life in the United States of America, and finally, our physical life itself. Affliction causes that outward man to perish. it consumes th
to experience the affliction of the hand of God and the death of a loved one. In many different ways, in many different circumstances, we all experience that. We're not strangers to pain and hurt, to loss and loneliness, to disappointment and discouragement. This Word of God to us tonight Gives
that even our trials and sorrows are part of his work for us. Oftentimes, we can't comprehend that, and we forget that. especially during the pressure of those trials, the tribulation, the afflictions that mark our present earthly soldier, but it's a truth that God reveals for our comfort. And i
There's the contrast between that which is seen, seen with these eyes, and that which is unseen, and invisible, and spiritual, seen only to the eye of faith. But do we believe this Word of God? Do we believe it? Are we ready to take this Word of God to the parents who have lost a child? Or to t
The affliction, or hardship may have involved someone close to us passing away or maybe it was the pain we felt when being mocked by classmates—persecution for righteousness’ sake—perhaps when not giving in to peer pressure at school. We were going through hardship in spite of ourselves. We were not