When Affliction Empties the House of Friends
David's lament in Psalm 38:11 captures the cruel arithmetic of human friendship—"My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand...
This is historical examples on abandonment in affliction and the failure of earthly friendship, drawing on Psalms 38:11.
David's lament in Psalm 38:11 captures the cruel arithmetic of human friendship—"My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off." They do not flee from David himself, but from his disease. His affliction becomes a wall that separates the sufferer from all comfort. Spurgeon's observation cuts deeper still: these friends position themselves at a calculated distance.…
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