The Savior Who Stays: Scripture, Strength and Hope for the Suffering Soul (Quiet Moments with Christ)

When suffering enters your life and refuses to leave, you need more than comfort. You need answers — and you need a Savior who stays.Now in a greatly expanded Second Edition: the original twenty-eight-day devotional has grown into thirty-one full-length daily studies, enriched with word studies, historical lives, endnotes, and a bibliography.Every long-term sufferer eventually prays the same prayer: Why me, O God? This devotional takes the question seriously. Day by day it opens the Word of God to show what He accomplishes through the suffering He allows — and why no long night is ever wasted.The Savior Who Stays carries the warmth of a devotional and the spine of a true theology of suffering. Drawing on Elihu's speeches in the book of Job, it devotes a full chapter to each biblical purpose of suffering — to protect, to correct, to teach, to refine, to reveal the glory of God, and more — moving the reader from Why? to Who.Each of the thirty-one daily readings includes:Scripture printed in full, in both a time-honored and a contemporary translation, so a reader in pain never has to cross the room for a BibleA word study drawn from the original Hebrew or GreekThe story of a believer who suffered well — Charles Spurgeon, Fanny Crosby, John Newton, Joni Eareckson Tada, Elisabeth Elliot, John Paton, and othersHonest questions for self-reflectionOne spiritual and one practical recommendation for the dayA prayer and a closing promise from God's WordRobert W. Rohlin writes from nineteen years of chronic pain and disability; he knows the furnace from the inside. Judy Rohlin brings insights gained from a study of the biblical theology of suffering and persecution and her experience of growing up on a challenging mission field among the Chinese people. Together they offer a book that comforts the heart while it feeds the mind — and a closing word for the caregivers, family, and friends who walk beside the hurting.Suffering came to pass. It never came to stay. The Savior came to stay — and He has never left. Read more