To afflict is to cause pain or suffering to a person.There are various groups of people that experiences affliction. They are grouped into five according to Psalm 107 vs 1-40, but the joy is that as they cried unto God, he heard them and delivered them from their afflictions.
The Righteous children of God. Psalm 107:2-7
It is not out of place for a child of God to suffer afflictions but it is indeed out out place to remain in it. Job 1:12 showed us how God permitted the devil to afflict Job despite Job's standing with God. Afflictions of the righteous is to show off to the devil that God has loyalist whose love for him are unconditional. It can also be a pointer that the individual is yet immature in Christ Jesus.(Galatians 4:1-7)
When the righteous is afflicted, it is not time to complain or justify oneself and that was what prolonged that afflictions of Job. (Job 23:1-4). It is rather a time to cry out for mercy. Cry out to God and he will deliver you. (Job 40:3-5, Job 42:3)
............to be continued
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