Afflicted For Our Good?
I was studying today in my Bible in the book of Psalm and I happened upon a verse in chapter 119 that puzzled me. "It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes." Psalm 119:71 I couldn't get past the question in my head of "What does being afflicted have to do with learning God's commandments/laws?" David, who might have written this psalm, definitely saw affliction, emotionally and physically. Imagine the physical affliction of being hunted like an animal as David was, because Saul wanted to kill him. Imagine the emotional affliction that David felt because of the murder of Amnon and Absalom, 2 of his sons, among other family issues. Affliction comes to our lives so that we will learn to apply Scripture, or so that we will learn to experience what we already know intellectually. If we didn't have "t