Trusting God, Even When Life Hurts by Jerry Bridges
“No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father’s attention; no circumstance is so big that He cannot control it.”
“An unreserved trust of God , when we don’t understand what is happening or why, is the only road to peace and comfort and joy.”
I’ve read and reviewed several books by Jerry Bridges, and like his others, Trusting God is theologically sound and grounded in scripture, and in typical Bridges’ style also very practical. Author, teacher, and speaker Jerry Bridges served in ministry with the evangelistic organization The Navigators for over 50 years before he passed away in 2016. He authored about 20 books, the first and one of his best-known being The Pursuit of Holiness.
Since the Fall, man has had to live with discomfort and pain, loss and sorrow, crime and injustice, and just plain “bad stuff.” Who hasn’t found themselves at some point in their life asking the question, “Why?” to God? Have you ever heard an individual say something like, “God didn’t want this to happen,” when tragedy strikes a family or a community? Is this supposed to be comforting somehow? Or is the person maybe trying to vindicate God, let Him off the hook, so to speak?
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