You can't put God in a box of your own making

‘Fess up!  You’ve tried to put God in a box, we all have. Some of the lucky ones figure out fairly quickly that it doesn’t work, while others keep trying, long after any reasonable person would have given up. Sadly, many people give up on God when He doesn’t meet their expectations, but the lucky ones, give up on their expectations before giving up on God.

                Luke Norsworthy tells his story of the struggles he faced trying to reconcile a good God, with the bad things that happen in our world. Not only the natural disasters, but the bad things that happen to people who are trying, to the best of their ability, to follow God, and walk with Jesus.  Someone once said that the good is the enemy of the best, and when it comes to faith, truer words were never spoken.

                In God over Good; Saving Your Faith by Losing Your Expectations of God (Baker Books, 2108) we are introduced to a way of understanding God that, because it asks us to think outside the box, at first seems to make little sense, but the further we travel with Norsworthy on his journey, the more we see that if we trust God rather than chase after what we think is good, our faith becomes stronger and stronger.

                The theology is all here, and it’s written in an engaging style that most of us can identify with. You don’t have to be a theologian or bible scholar to understand Luke’s thought processes. 

                Does it answer all the questions you might have about God? Probably not, but in the end, God is not someone or something designed to fill a box of our making, and there will always be things about God that we don’t understand. And if we understand that, our desire to walk for God strengthens.

                I received a copy of this book from the publisher as a part of their blogger program. I was not required to write a positive review.

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