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                 Sunday Snippets (tm) #15               22Jan95
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           QUOTES ON AFFLICTION & THE BELIEVER
                
it's universality:

One son hath God without sin, but none without sorrow.
                                                - John Trapp

"Man is born to trouble (Job)" ; he is heir apparent to it; he comes
into the world with a cry, and goes out with a groan.
                                                - Thomas Watson

it's transitory nature:

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting...Affliction
was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.
                                                - Thomas Watson

Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; 
When I fall, I will arise;
When I sit in darkness,
The Lord will be a light to me.
I will bear the indignation of the Lord,
Because I have sinned against Him,
Until He pleads my case
And executes justice for me.
He will bring me forth to the light;
I will see His righteousness.
                                                - Micah 7:8-9 (NKJV)


a recongnition of strength: 

Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no 
more on me, because he sees I can can bear no more.
                                                - Joseph Hall

can my affliction be traced to God?     [See Job 1:12-22, 2 Cor. 12:7-9]

Whoever brings an affliction, it is God that sends it.
                                                - Thomas Watson

a song of deliverance:

        I waited for the Lord my God,
        And patiently did bear;
        At length to me He did incline
        My voice and cry to hear.
        
        He took me from a fearful pit,
        And from the miry clay;
        And on a rock He set my feet
        Establishing my way.

        He put a new song in my mouth,
        Our God to magnify:
        Many shall see it, and shall fear,
        And on the Lord rely.
                                        - Psalm 40:1-3 (Scottish Psalter)

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