You'll Get Through This (Book Review)

Well I'm apparently roaring through the non-fiction books. I read this one in a week or so, but it was easy reading. And it was what I needed in this crazy season of life.

If you need balm for the soul, Max Lucado's book, You'll Get Through This is it. It reads like poetry, provides plenty of tongue-in-cheek humor, and is full of real life stories that remind readers to hope in God. In chronicling Joseph's story, Lucado sets forth 15 principles that should change the way readers view trials. "You'll get through this," he writes. "God will make good out of this mess." I wouldn't say that Lucado's ideas are necessarily new, but they are very succinct and very quotable. I'd argue that Lucado takes a bit too much creative liberty in places (like when he talks about Joseph's brothers taking pickup trucks to Egypt), but his wry sense of humor makes them tolerable. Lucado isn't really claiming to be a theologian, either. He's a pastor who's trying to help believers apply biblical truths to real life. And I think his book does just that.

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