Charles Spurgeon once wrote, “Those who dive in the sea of affliction – bring up pearls! There is a sweet joy that comes to us through sorrow. Sickness has frequently been more use to the saints of God, than health has.” Illness & affliction can take on many faces, with just as many circumstances, situations, and outcomes. It could be you that is currently challenged with a disease process or infirmity…or it could be like me, who is a twenty-four-hour Caregiver for someone battling chronic illness. To understand this quote from Spurgeon we only need to look at Job and his season of affliction, loss, and searching out of God’s answers. Job drew on his foreknowledge of God and how He used affliction as a means for spiritual discipline and education. (Job 36:15) He also knew that affliction could bring us back from wandering away from God. (Psalm 119:67) Job was then reassured that – the Lord would sustain him on his sickbed and restore him, (Psalm 41:3) that his hope in his affliction wouldn’t ever perish, (Psalm 9:18) and that the Lord would ultimately deliver him. (Psalm 34:19)
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