You Can Trust God
Book Review
Al Groover (Pastor at EBC)
Written by gifted author and speaker Jerry Bridges, the twenty page booklet You Can Trust God is an adaptation from his book Trusting God which is about two hundred pages. The publisher writes, "to fully benefit from the author's message, the reader is encouraged to enjoy a complete reading of Trusting God, which is available through Christian bookstores.
Mr. Bridges does an excellent job of explaining why we should trust God and addresses the obstacles and/or stumbling blocks that we allow to keep us from trusting Him. The publishers note on the back cover of the booklet reads in part, "Jerry Bridges has personally experienced the darkness, distress, and despair that flood the soul when it seems like God doesn't care." In his warm and personal booklet he reveals the three essential truths about God that kept him through those experiences, and convinced him God could be trusted. Those truths given on page six are: "God is sovereign; God is infinite in wisdom; and God is perfect in love."
Bridges uses at least one personal experience, his wife's illness, to relate how he came to trust God more. The reader is reminded that we all experience adversity in life and that it is a conscious act of the will whereby we choose to trust God with our heartaches and problems. And we are to do this even when we don't feel like doing it. He wrote, "It isn't always easy to trust God. But when we understand why He can be trusted it helps us cling to Him, despite the adversity that threatens to overwhelm us."
Take a few minutes to read this jewel of instruction. It will be most profitable if you heed its advice.