This book presents a God-centered perspective on suffering and prepares us to be good students in God's school of suffering. By focusing our attention on Jesus Christ, it shows how knowing Him and His sufferings illuminates and sustains us in our own. It also draws lessons from biblical examples of suffering saints and mines the riches of the Reformed divines on the topic. It closes by showing how the God of patience and consolation strengthens weary pilgrims in hope and with a longing for heaven. In the darkest of times, believers are reminded that their hearts can be satisfied by nothing less than the infinite God.

Joel R. Beeke (PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary) was the president of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary from 1995 to 2023 and now serves there as the chancellor and professor of homiletics and systematic theology. He is a minister of the Heritage Reformed Congregation of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Paul M. Smalley (ThM, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary) is a research and teaching assistant to Joel Beeke at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. He previously ministered as a pastor of several Baptist churches in the midwestern United States and currently serves as a teacher at Grace Immanuel Reformed Baptist Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan.