A few observations from Psalm 119.
God’s painful discipline of his children always has a redemptive purpose and is done in faithful love.
67 Before I was afflicted I went astray,
but now I keep your word.
71 It is good for me that I was afflicted,
that I might learn your statutes.
75 I know, O Lord, that your rules are righteous,
and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
God’s life-giving promise is a comfort in time of affliction.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction,
that your promise gives me life.
God’s word sustains us through affliction.
92 If your law had not been my delight,
I would have perished in my affliction.
God can deliver us from affliction, and we can cry out for life.
153 Look on my affliction and deliver me,
for I do not forget your law.
107 I am severely afflicted;
give me life, O Lord, according to your word!