Title: Afflictions

   An old seaman said, “In fierce storms we can do but one thing. There is only one way (to survive); we must put the ship in a certain position and keep her there.”

   Commenting on this idea, Richard Fuller wrote:

 This, Christian, is what you must do. Sometimes, like Paul,  you can see neither sun nor stars, and no small tempest lies on you.  Reason cannot help you.  Past experiences give you no  light.  Only a single course is left. You must stay upon the  Lord; and come what may  winds, waves, cross seas, thunder, lightning, frowning rocks, roaring breakers              no matter what,  you must lash yourself to the helm and hold fast your confidence in God’s faithfulness and his everlasting love in Christ Jesus.

Psalms 18:2   The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

Romans 8:38-39   For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,  39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 Hebrews 12:11   Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

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