Gospel.com Topics Feed - Learn Your Decrees 2009-09-04T12:07:16-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/learn+your+decrees/ Afflicted in the Bible - a Christian perspective http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20119:71&version=NIV 2009-09-04T12:07:16-05:00 The psalmist writes in Psalm 119 that it was a good thing that he was afflicted. Being afflicted made it so he could learn God's decrees.