Thought for the Week

Affliction is a Biblical word meaning physical or mental pain or suffering testing a person’s ability to function. There are generally three root causes for affliction: Satan, God, and simply being human and living in a fallen, sin-cursed world. Satan uses affliction to try to get people to reject God as unmerciful and or see Him as not loving. Job would be the primary example here. Satan brought all kinds of afflictions on Job, to cause him to lose his faith in God. Through all of them Job never lost his faith in God nor his integrity. Job recognized God as Sovereign with the right to give or...