Affliction

This year our church is reading through the Psalms. I have been using my thoughts on the Psalms to guide a Bible study I lead on Tuesday mornings with Eric. My friend has an incurable disease and lives in a shack behind his mother's house in Dobsonville, Soweto. 

We started our last Bible study by sharing verses (from the reading plan) that were especially meaningful to us. Eric shared the following four verses, all from Psalm 119.

v67 Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.

v71 It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes.

v75 I know, O LORD, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

v77 Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.

Now you know why I love going to Soweto every Tuesday morning. Please pray for Eric - that he would be healed, or if God chooses not to heal him; that he might be used to minister to the many other HIV+ people in Soweto.