August 27
Benefits of Affliction—Brings Us Back to God
Scripture
KJV
I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.—Then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
ESV
Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths. She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them. Then she shall say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.’
Hosea 2:6-7
Poem
Long unafflicted, undismayed,
In pleasure's path secure I strayed:
Thou madest me feel thy chastening rod,
And strait I turned unto my God.