No cause to murmur or complain – Thomas Brooks

One lesson that you are to learn under the afflictive rod of God, is to humbly to kiss the rod, and patiently and quietly to lie under the rod, until the Lord shall either give you a gracious, or a glorious, deliverance from it.

What is the rod compared to the horrors of conscience, and to the flames of hell, or to an everlasting separation from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power? Therefore put your mouths in the dust, and be silent before the Lord!

He who has deserved a hanging if he escapes with a whipping, has no cause to murmur or complain.

We who have deserved a damning have little cause to murmur or complain of a whipping, yes, though it should be with a pestilential rod.