Psalms 107:38-39. He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease. Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
God has a great many rods, and we get a great many smarts because of our many sins. If we were but saved from our sins, we should not need all these rods, "oppression affliction, and sorrow," - tribulation, and anguish, and pain, and distress. I will not tell you the names of all of them, but they are very many, and their strokes are very painful. May God grant that we may be quit of sin, for only so shall we be quit of many of these sorrows.
Psalms 107:38-39. He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease. Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
God has a great many rods, and we get a great many smarts because of our many sins. If we were but saved from our sins, we should not need all these rods, "oppression affliction, and sorrow," - tribulation, and anguish, and pain, and distress. I will not tell you the names of all of them, but they are very many, and their strokes are very painful. May God grant that we may be quit of sin, for only so shall we be quit of many of these sorrows.