David made an interesting statement in Psalm 119:71. He said, “It is good for me that I have been afflicted....” How strange to read this, for it is the opposite of our general way of thinking. We want a life of ease and one that is free of affliction of any kind.
Willliam Secker wrote: “There are some things good but not pleasant, as sorrow and affliction. Sin is pleasant, but ...