Book Review: God Will Carry You Through by Max Lucado

This isn’t a book review per se, instead, I am going to share a few thoughts from Max Lucado’s book which really spoke to me.

God Will Carry You Through revolves around the story of Joseph, who through decades of betrayal, abandonment, and false accusation, Joseph never gave up on God or His purpose, and he continually trusted the sovereignty of God as Master-weaver of his life.

Joseph suffered setbacks in his life – being thrown into a pit by his brothers, sold as a slave to the Egyptians and then being put in jail for crimes he did not commit.  But the question is where these really setbacks because sometimes what we may see as setbacks, God sees as opportunities. So we should not be discouraged when things may not go as we plan because God has other plans which will help us prosper.

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose” Romans 8 v 28.

I love this verse which was written by the Apostle Paul, and in his book, Max Lucado unpacks this verse for us and shows us that from this verse we can see that:

God Works. He is busy behind the scenes of our lives, above the fray and within the fury. He hasn’t checked out or moved on and never will. He is ceaseless and timeless. He never stops working.

God works for the good, not for comfort or pleasure or entertainment but for our ultimate good. Since he is the ultimate good, would we expect anything less?

God works for the good of those who love him. Behold the benefit of loving God. Make His story your story, and your story takes on a happy ending. Guaranteed. Being the author of our Salvation, he writes a salvation theme into our biography.

God works in all things. God works not through a few things or through the good things, best things or easy things, but in ‘all things’ God works.

Your life is a crafted narrative written by a good God who is working toward your supreme good.