The afflictions the Lord sends on His people',

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"You have afflicted me with all Your waves." Psalm 88:7

Jesus was a man of sufferings—a man of sorrows 
and acquainted with grief. And His people, in their 
measure, must have the same. The Lord has 
appointed it should be so. He has chosen His Zion 
in the furnace of affliction. There is no escape. 

The afflictions the Lord sends on His people are 
of varied kinds. The Lord sees necessary to send 
afflictions suitable to the case, state and condition 
of each. What might be an affliction to one might 
not be so to another. Each must carry his own 
affliction. Each must bear his own load, and each 
endure his own appointed lot. 

So a wise God sees exactly what affliction to 
lay on each and all . . .
when it shall come,
where it shall come,
why it shall come,
how it shall come,
how it shall work, 
what it shall work,
how long it shall last,
when it shall be put on,
and when taken off.  

In these matters the Lord acts as a sovereign.

<p>We did not choose of what parents we would
be born, nor our situation in life; neither had 
we any choice of our stature or skin colour.

<p>Likewise, the Lord appointed all our afflictions 
for us—and when He puts them on, no human 
arm can take them off!

He knows our constitution and troubles—our 
characteristics and the minutest things relating 
to our situation in life. The Lord knows all our 
concerns. Therefore He lays on each individual 
the very affliction He sees that individual needs; 
no greater, no less—exactly the very affliction 
which shall bring about the very appointed purpose 
intended by God to be brought about, which shall 
be for the soul's good and God's own glory.

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