What Shall We Do in Trouble?
By John Nevins Andrews
WE must seek God. It is to remind us that we are sinful men that affliction comes upon us. It is not to drive us from God, but to lead us to him, that God sends us affliction. It is for us to draw near to God, that the very causes of our affliction may be removed. We should not be so much troubled at our own sufferings as at the sin which causes them. When we have put away our sin, we have done what God has designed to effect in us by our affliction. We may leave the affliction to take care of itself if we only repent of our sins with true repentance, so that God accepts our humiliation before him.