Psalm 119:143 KJV "...Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights..."
With grateful heart my thanks I bring,
Before the great thy praise I sing:
I worship in thy holy place
And praise thee for thy truth and grace;
For truth and grace together shine
In thy most holy Word divine.
I cried to thee and thou didst save,
Thy Word of grace new courage gave;
The kings of earth shall thank thee, Lord,
For they have heard thy wondrous word;
Yea, they shall come with songs of praise,
For great and glorious are thy ways.
O Lord, enthroned in glory bright,
Thou reignest in the heavenly height;
The proud in vain thy favor seek,
But thou hast mercy for the meek;
Through trouble though my pathway be,
Thou wilt revive and strengthen me.
Thou wilt stretch forth thy mighty arm
To save me when my foes alarm;
The work thou hast for me begun
Shall by thy grace be fully done;
For ever mercy dwells with thee;
O Lord, my Maker, think on me. (TH, 76).
"...O Lord, Whose power is infinite and wisdom infallible, order things that they may neither hinder, nor discourage me, nor prove obstacles to the progress of Thy cause. Stand between me and all strife, that no evil befall, no sin corrupt my gifts, zeal, attainments. May I follow duty and not any foolish device of my own. Permit me not to labour at work which Thou wilt not bless, that I may serve thee without disgrace or debt. Let me dwell in Thy most secret place under thy shadow, where is safe impenetrable protection from the arrow that flieth by day, the pestilence that walketh in darkness, the strife of tongues, the malice of ill-will, the hurt of unkind talk, the snares of company, the perils of youth, the temptations of middle life, the moumings of old age, the fear of death. I am entirely dependent upon Thee for support, counsel, consolation. Uphold me by Thy free Spirit, and may I not think it enough to be preserved from falling, but may I always go forward, always abounding in the work Thou givest me to do. Strengthen me by Thy Spirit in my inner self for every purpose of my Christian life. All my jewels I give to the shadow of the safety that is in Thee—my name anew in Christ, my body, soul, talents, character, my success, wife, children, friends, work, my present, my future, my end. Take them, they are Thine, and I am thine, now and for ever...." (Refuge, Valley of Vision).
1. Conflict slings to the true Christian like our very flesh, because those who live godly will suffer.
2. Christians are in trouble because of sin.
3. Christians are in trouble because of radical good.
4. Christians are oppressed by Satan and demons.
5. Christians are hated by a dark world.
6. Pain does not constitute delusion but trouble.
7. Pain does not constitute a chemical imbalance in the brain, but it constitutes a real Christian.
8. Pain for the Christian is meant for the honor of Jesus' glory, but pain for the reprobate is meant for self-pity and ultimate justice for Jesus' glory.
9. Anguish is a painful tension in the mind that grinds us back to the picture of the agony of Jesus.
10. There is an anguish that is hot spiritual pain that consumes the soul to an extent that nothing is able to relieve the spiritual pain of hell before the time but the good Lord allows His people to experience painful-consuming fire on the soul to teach us about the greatest treasure of all in the Triune Majesty.
11. Have you wondered why obedient Christian people seem to suffer so? Look no further than the plan of Jesus, because in our shattered image and corrupted weakness He desires to relate or draw near to us in our suffering by His incomparable suffering at the unmatchable Cross that teaches us the meaning behind suffering that is God's meticulous purpose unto His glory for mercy or justice.
12. Jesus is able to identify with good old Job in ancient history before His Cross, because Job in some sense was not to blame for his suffering.
13. It is true Jesus had authority to lay down His life and take it up again, because Jesus did not sin ever and His people alone are to blame for the murder of Jesus Christ yet the Father bears no guilt in the meticulous foredetermination of the Cross as the First Cause but the sin lays with the Second Cause.
14. Imagine the Father's human expression in His condescension of the pain of the Son at the Cross?
15. Most speak of His turning His back on the Son. It is true the Son became accursed on the Cross. It is true in a human expression the Son was obediently forsaken by the Father. It is in the sense that the Son sought a mission of forsaken accursedness in behalf of His people, because sin was applied to Him in such a way that the Father's redemptive wrath consumed-and-absorbed the Son nailed to the Cross.
16. Touching the Father's divine nature, He cannot experience pain: namely, this is true for the divine nature of the Son and Spirit. Again He understands pain better than all of us, but the Son suffered pain touching His human nature. We distinguish between the human and divine natures of Jesus Christ, but we do not separate them.
17. He understands our pain better than all of us. Imagine what the Father's mind was when the Son took sin applied to Him yet remained sinless and the set apart pain He endured for the spiritual redemption of His chosen?
18. In a human expression without it being falsehood or unreal, God Incarnate died on the Cross for the sins of His chosen alone.
19. Death is not greater than the eternal Son: namely, the self-existent Son has power to lay down His life and take it up again.
20. Jesus holds the keys of death in His Hand.
21. Jesus holds the design of all pain in all the world.
22. Jesus is looking for Christians of a living sacrifice, because He is looking at His greatest act of obedience in the image of the Son's Cross.
23. Transform your pain by the Word and Spirit into the benefit of the Cross, but its not that we earn salvation or add to His matchless Cross: namely, imitate that unattainable.
24. Transform your pain by the Word and Spirit when the laughter of God's enemies against you is heard louder than God's written Word.
25. Transform your pain by the Word and Spirit when you see the religious seek to add satisfaction to the divine justice of the contentment of the all-exclusive Cross of the Living Son.
26. Transform your pain by the Word and Spirit when friends forsake the right even in the face of biblical reason.
27. What is your pain though an ungreat greatness in comparsion to the the greatness of the unmatchable Cross of Jesus Christ alone?
28. Does even Job's pain equal the pain of the Cross? By no means!
29. Is Job's pain any less in experiential terms? No but it is less painful to view all pain in light of the Cross unattainable.
30. The pain of Jesus at His Cross made hell shake, because the gates of hell have fallen by the rising of the conquering Risen King. Why are you trapped in the fallen gates held up by lifeless death where there is no sting but a pathway to life by Christ alone?
31. What was the experiential pain by the Virgin Mary and Beloved John? Here they stand before the Cross, but both must be in repentance.
32. For Jesus' family with His mother came accusing Him unto insanity at one point, but Beloved John scattered at His foredetermined capture when His hour had basically come.
33. The pain of betrayal was profound, but also the pain of the abuse of the divine innocence of the eternal Son must have quacked their souls.
34. Hell hates a Christian who does good.
35. Heaven awaits those who a born of Christ.
36. There is no trouble in heaven, but fallen Lucifer has access to the throne of Christ in the outer part of heaven where he comes to accuse the people of God and ask permission for their without cause destruction unto an abyss of pain.
37. When fallen Lucifer attacks the untouchable Christ it is like fallen man aiming nuclear weapons aimed to heaven against the eternal Christ.
38. The enemies of God fire it off so far from destroying Jesus through advanced trouble that it bounces off of Him without His effort.
39. God does not try in all His does but Satan is fallen in his rebellion of great sin.
40. The pain of Satan is like a human being (a metaphor) on fire with flames that is so intricate by God's design that he is moment-by-moment consumed with God's wrath but his reaction to God's fury is attrition and violence to His holy plan. It is basically a furtherance of a confounded idolatry steeped in spiteful pride that only hell welcomes.
41. There should be compassion unto justice for never-converted reprobates by God's restrainment.
42. There should never be sympathy for the devil and his minions of fallen angels, because he is a clever devil seeking someone to tear into a billion pieces while he is a rebellious tyrant seeking friendship in judgment of hell before the time, misery untold but not redemptive and self-pity that climbs heights of mountains of space that plunge lower than the sea in a self-satisfaction unto dark and flaming misery steeped in flaming fire of spite that sinks lower than the grave in a pain that provokes the Almighty in satanic rebels against the innocence of a holy Triune God. My God, why?
43. Great pain is a time of great love of God.
44. Great suffering is a way to remember Jesus.
45. Hell piercing pain is remembrance of His Cross.
46. Do you have trouble? Is it good or it is bad? In other words, do you suffer for what is right or for what is wrong?
47. The best kind of trouble that honors God is suffering for good things. How about suffering for Jesus Christ?
48. Have you suffered for what is wrong? It is not the end, but my friend, take up repentance and following Jesus unto set apart excellence in redeeming the time through a created and ordained good that reflects God's holy intent in all things.
49. Sanctified punishment does not add to Jesus, but simply teaches us a way of repentance and a life of holiness for Jesus' glory.
50. Reprobate punishment will lead to further sin, but it a matter of God judging sin for the glory of His justice for the plan of Jesus Christ.
51. Do you find that in your suffering you are the center of all things? This is idolatry! My good man, you must turn that into Jesus as the center of all things.
52. Is your pain above your tolerance? Does it overflow in bitter agony? If this is your misery, rejoice to Jesus because He loves whom He gives pain for His chosen.
53. How should we deal with pain? Do you remember the true stories of the Gospel? It comes down to doing radical good, speaking truth, having a fellowship of immediate friends, spending time alone conversing with God and seeking the joy of the Father's will.
54. The pain of depression in regards to what Christians suffer is not something that can be treated by medicine, but the depression of reprobates should be counseled and treated in reasonable approaches that do not violate the Word.
55. The pain of emotional agony is healed by the soothing water of the Word and singing the hymns of St. John Hus (a reformer opposed to Rome) in the fires of his enemies that are set ablaze upon him where you find yourself on fire for Jesus that is heated by hell but quenched the winds of heaven that takes us to Himself.
56. The pain of Esau was attrition and self-piety.
57. The pain of Balaam was self-piety unto despair.
58. The pain of Judas Iscariot was fear of judgment without regard to divine truth in every way.
59. The way of Judas is through deceitful outward ways of disobedience that are convinced of hell.
60. Disobedience will cause everyone pain.
61. Sin has ruined society but there is a good God.
62. The Holy Spirit comes to help His people.
63. Too often it seems like nobody cares when there is such a pain that it isolates the consciousness in a blazing agony that teaches us about the sympathy of the Holy Ghost for His people.
64. The good of Christian is not meant for the evil of others, but the outward appearance of the good of reprobate Satan is meant for the evil of all.
65. The sympathy of Satan for pain is like being hugged by a living darkness that sets you ablaze with supernatural fire that only stories of the abyss tell.
66. Fallen man cannot help himself, but God is able to help him in his suffering.
67. The suffering of elect angels is a angelic human expression, but they are mighty and strong against the fallen legions of the father of evil.
68. Satan cannot help himself in ceasing his allegiance of sin, but God only if God restrains him and isolates him to hell before the time in a portal prison that confines him to his evil.
69. No one can suffer like Jesus Christ.
70. No one can endure the pain of the Cross except Jesus Christ.
71. If there is sympathy for reprobate evil in a way that approves of it, you will find yourself partaking of it already in thought life that causes a pain so great that militates the wrath of God.
72. The suffering of hell is on-going but not redemptive, but it is eternal.
73. Hell is a eternal correcting-punishment by God but it yields no redemptive change but only civil change that is only good for God's wrath.
74. Civil change is good for God's wrath, because there is a higher alien righteousness of Christ alone that the Father requires through His Son by the application of His Spirit in monergistic rebirth.
75. There are tears of heaven but tears of joy!
76. There are tears of hell but tears of sin!
77. With those of fallen sinners who adopt godhood doctrine are consumed with wrath in such a way that it is like an exploding planet in the coldness of space that is a consuming shadow that is the object of the Father's terror for fallen rebels.
78. The dark ocean at night is a season of sin.
79. The dark space with lights is like God's people when people suffer, and we ask, where are you? I can hardly see you, why are you so afar off? Shine O stars! Glow O moon! Watch out! There's only one shooting star!
80. The written Word alone teaches us that suffering has meaning behind it because God is a God of meaning and all meaning comes from Him alone, but once we divorce meaning from God and God from meaning we fall into unbelief and doubt.
81. The tears of St. Peter are not an evil, because it is a conviction of sin upon evil. Do you weep over sin? What level of godly sorrow do you have? Come on now! Its a good pain of conviction! Yes the Spirit has come and you are under construction! Unless the Lord builds the house they labor in vain...
82. The offense of sin can bring Jesus to overthrow tables with a mighty wipe, because it is about right and wrong in God's holy presence.
83. If you suffer for good as a Christian your reward is God.
84. If you suffer for evil as a reprobate your reward is punishment in hell.
85. If you suffer for evil as a Christian it is time to repent unto remission and love holiness throughout our daily walk with Jesus Christ.
86. Do you know that Jesus is there always when you suffer so much pain? You must transcend the pain by the Spirit in remembering the Word.
87. If everything is painful wait quietly on God.
88. Do not give up but surrender to the image of the Cross, because sometimes you are the object of such pain that all you can do is take it and live for the Father no matter what: Jesus is on His throne.
89. Pain is not the end of all things but the beginning of submission to the Father.
90. Pain and patience are like the strangest thing I know in human experience, but if you have the patience of Job it will be a blessing unless you have the patience of a curse like Balaam that yields self-destruction in a reprobate patience through infiltration of the people of God through the strange pain-filled pleasure of lawless fornication that militates the sword of vengeance to cease a sinful criminology.
91. Jesus' painful experience at the Cross touching His human nature under went pain yet He was sinless and His burden is light, but touching His divine nature the pain was incomprehensible to Him and unknown in a way that is understood by Him but untouchable to Him due to the fact that nothing is greater than He and there is no real threat to His unmatchable deity in set apart sinlessness though He underwent a pain that defies human expression that only God Incarnate Messiah could endure.
92. There is a great pain above us all in a high level of pain: namely, pain in this life and pain in hell.
93. Sin is a counterfeit that is a secret trap that seeks to rise above God, but it did not rise above God at the Cross but Jesus satisfied divine justice for His people to the Father, bodily rose and ascended above the realms of the darkness of sin.
94. The pain of the Cross was not idolatry, but a way God sought to fulfill the appointed hour of the Suffering only-begotten God-man at His highest point of holy submission to the Father.
95. How much good do you do? Is Jesus worthy of a trouble in this world in your Christian walk? Do you hear words but do not do truth? Why do you delay? Why are you stranded in time while there is endless evil deeds and no good? No one is saved by good deeds, but I also maintain that if imputed righteousness is embraced there will be a logical positive consequence of radical good in a proliferation of anguish that imitates Jesus as a little Jesus not in self-destruction but living for Jesus and dying to sin. The fires of pain because of sin are blazing, but you come with the water of the Word to put them out. Every religious soul feels they are on fire for Jesus, but the Water of the Word brings us back to our senses due to a abyss of suffering that is easily overlooked but fearfully weighed in its immediate confrontation in the conscious mind.
Jesus, I my cross have taken,
All to leave, and follow thee;
Destitute, despised, forsaken,
Thou from hence my all shalt be:
Perish ev'ry fond ambition,
All I've sought, or hoped, or known;
Yet how rich is my condition,
God and heav'n are still my own.
Man may trouble and distress me,
'Twill but drive me to thy breast;
Life with trials hard may press me,
Heav'n will bring me sweeter rest:
O 'tis not in grief to harm me
While thy love is left to me;
O 'twere not in joy to charm me,
Were that joy unmixed with thee.
Take, my soul, thy full salvation,
Rise o'er sin and fear and care;
Joy to find in ev'ry station
Something still to do or bear;
Think what spirit dwells within thee,
What a Father's smile is thine,
What a Saviour died to win thee:
Child of heav'n, shouldst thou repine?
Haste then on from grace to glory,
Armed by faith, and winged by prayer;
Heav'n's eternal day's before thee,
God's own hand shall guide thee there.
Soon shall close thy earthly mission;
Swift shall pass thy pilgrim days;
Hope soon change to glad fruition,
Faith to sight, and prayer to praise. (TH, 593).
All to leave, and follow thee;
Destitute, despised, forsaken,
Thou from hence my all shalt be:
Perish ev'ry fond ambition,
All I've sought, or hoped, or known;
Yet how rich is my condition,
God and heav'n are still my own.
Man may trouble and distress me,
'Twill but drive me to thy breast;
Life with trials hard may press me,
Heav'n will bring me sweeter rest:
O 'tis not in grief to harm me
While thy love is left to me;
O 'twere not in joy to charm me,
Were that joy unmixed with thee.
Take, my soul, thy full salvation,
Rise o'er sin and fear and care;
Joy to find in ev'ry station
Something still to do or bear;
Think what spirit dwells within thee,
What a Father's smile is thine,
What a Saviour died to win thee:
Child of heav'n, shouldst thou repine?
Haste then on from grace to glory,
Armed by faith, and winged by prayer;
Heav'n's eternal day's before thee,
God's own hand shall guide thee there.
Soon shall close thy earthly mission;
Swift shall pass thy pilgrim days;
Hope soon change to glad fruition,
Faith to sight, and prayer to praise. (TH, 593).
Grant that my proneness to evil, deadness to good, resistance to Thy Spirit's motions, may never provoke Thee to abandon me. May my hard heart awake Thy pity, not Thy wrath, And if the enemy gets an advantage through my corruption, let it be seen that heaven is mightier than hell, that those for me are greater than those against me. Arise to my help in richness of covenant blessings, keep me feeding in the pastures of Thy strengthening Word, searching Scripture to find Thee there.
If my waywardness is visited with a scourge, enable me to receive correction meekly, to bless the reproving hand, to discern the motive of rebuke, to respond promptly, and do the first work. Let all Thy fatherly dealings make me a partaker of Thy holiness. Grant that in every fall I may sink lower on my knees, and that when I rise it may be to loftier heights of devotion. May my every cross be sanctified, every loss be gain, every denial a spiritual advantage, every dark day a light of the Holy Spirit, every night of trial a song..." (Spiritual Helps, Valley of Vision).
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