90 Days of God's Goodness

It may be cliche, but the question of why bad things happen to good people is a tough one to tackle. Randy Alcorn does a tremendous job of answering it. His book 90 Days of God's Goodness is a devotional book that deals with the issue of suffering in the world in relation to God. Alcorn addresses the issue of how a good God can allow so many terrible things to occur. He acknowledges that because of life's horrors, it is very difficult for some people to accept that God is good. But he does not permit us to feed those doubts. He gently, lovingly, and logically argues the case of God's sovereignty and His goodness.
There are a hundred quotes from this book that blew me away. I would love to share them all but of course I can't. I'm just going to share a short bit of a sermon by Pastor James Montgomery Boice that Alcorn quoted:
"God is in charge. When things like this come into our lives, they are not accidental. It's not as if God somehow forgot what was going on, and something bad slipped by.. . . God is not only the one who is in charge; God is also good. Everything He does is good.. . . If God does something in your life, would you change it? If you'd change it, you'd make it worse. It wouldn't be as good."
If you have wrestled with the question, "How can a good God let this happen?"--this is your book. There is Someone who knows more than us, knows better than us, sees farther than us, and loves us more than we can comprehend. Read this book and be encouraged.

*I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.